I miss someone who gets me. I called a woman on my research team a bitch – you know in a friendly way – and she told me to go to hell. And I think she really meant it.”
“Rhian, we’ve talked about this. Normal people don’t like to be called names. For some reason, they tend to take is personally. And you are a tad bitchy, by the way.
“Normal people are so sensitive.


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When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shie...
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blon...
SAMANTHA MUMBA
But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
SAMANTHA MUMBA
I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing...
SAMANTHA MUMBA
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But w...
SAMANTHA MORTON
I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
SAMANTHA MORTON
I am proud of what I've done.
SAMANTHA MORTON
I was physically abused and I retaliated.
SAMANTHA MORTON
I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
SAMANTHA MORTON
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
SAMANTHA MORTON
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
SAMANTHA MORTON
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direc...
SAMANTHA MORTON
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
SAMANTHA MORTON
I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't k...
SAMANTHA MORTON
Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn....
SAMANTHA MORTON
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
SAMANTHA MORTON
For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money o...
SAMANTHA MORTON
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't h...
SAMANTHA MORTON
I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will s...
SAMANTHA MORTON
It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children g...
SAMANTHA MORTON
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring m...
SAMANTHA MORTON
We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to ch...
SAMANTHA MORTON
You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play ...
SAMANTHA MORTON
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're tal...
SAMANTHA MORTON
I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with chil...
SAMANTHA MORTON
I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. Th...
SAMANTHA MORTON
What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless y...
SAMANTHA MORTON
I like to stretch my acting muscles.
SAMANTHA MORTON
There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
SAMANTHA MATHIS
Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
SAMANTHA MATHIS
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
SAMANTHA MATHIS
When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
SAMANTHA MATHIS
I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I ...
SAMANTHA ISLER
I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I c...
SAMANTHA ISLER
I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
SAMANTHA ISLER
I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
SAMANTHA HARVEY
I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. T...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha...
SAMANTHA HARVEY
I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
SAMANTHA FOX
I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.
SAMANTHA FOX
I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ...
SAMANTHA FOX
When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
SAMANTHA FOX
At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
SAMANTHA FOX
When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur...
SAMANTHA FOX
I still keep my accent.
SAMANTHA FOX
It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
SAMANTHA FOX
I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.
SAMANTHA FOX