Samantha Morton Quotes

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

Samantha Morton

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • May
  • Strong
  • Church

• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Question
  • Dating
  • Take

• If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  

  Young Buck
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Young

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Long
  • Done
  • Day

• Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  

  Anna Chancellor
  • Work
  • Famous
  • Funeral

• Let us then Consider rather the incessant Now of The traveler through time, his tired mind Biased towards bigness since his body must Exaggerate to exist, possessed by hope...

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Hope

• It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Action
  • Courage
  • Ridiculous

• If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Mistake
  • Deserve

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think