Samantha Morton Quotes

I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.

I'm very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.

I have been incredibly lucky all my life. I've had a family that has loved me and given me incredible opportunities. I've gone to great schools. I've travelled across the country.

I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'