Samantha Morton Quotes
I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love.
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I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love songwriting. There is something so satisfying in coming up with an idea and turning it into a song that means something to people.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
