Morahan Quotes & Sayings

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age. — Rob Lowe

When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack. — Hattie Morahan

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. — Hattie Morahan

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits. — Hattie Morahan

I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct. — Hattie Morahan

It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles. — Hattie Morahan

On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right. — Katrina Vanden Heuvel

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human. — Hattie Morahan

It is only within knowing ones own self that truth resides & peace prevails. — Truth Devour

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes. — J.K. Rowling

Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to. — Hattie Morahan

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does. — Hattie Morahan

I don't impressed if you're a religious person.
I just wanna know about soul behind that mask. — Toba Beta

Just look at me now - I've never been so happy in my life! — Vera-Ellen

I'm sure my mum was a huge influence on my wanting to be an actress: just seeing her doing it, seeing her love it, caring about it. Invest in something, take it seriously and be so wonderful. — Hattie Morahan

There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want. — Hattie Morahan

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street. — Hattie Morahan

And I fell violently on my face. — Edgar Allan Poe

Birth Matters ... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth. — Ina May Gaskin

I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country church, made of grey and pink canvas that flapped in the gusts of storm wind, in that orange sky: a lopsided canvas structure aged by weather and ripped by time. And then it turned and I saw its face ... — Neil Gaiman

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity. — Hattie Morahan

I'm just interested in things that move me and make me think, make me laugh. — Hattie Morahan

I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays. — Hattie Morahan

Once there is no freedom, there is no man — Leo Tolstoy

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep. — Hattie Morahan

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel. — Nancy Kress

I've obviously got one of those faces that people can forget. — Hattie Morahan

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain. — Thomas Gray

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. — Hattie Morahan

I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end. — Hattie Morahan

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have. — Hattie Morahan

I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it! — Hattie Morahan

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking. — Hattie Morahan

This idea is a great idea, and a Christian idea could not have found fuller expression. Repentance can go no further than the astonishing heroic deed that you have contemplated, if only ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky