Morahan Quotes

#1. I'm just interested in things that move me and make me think, make me laugh.

Hattie Morahan

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

Sinead O'Connor

#6. 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

#7. If I do tell you the story, the two of us will always share it. And I don't know if that's the right thing to do. if I lift open the lid now, you'll be implicated. Is that what you want? You really want to know something I've sacrificed so much trying to forget?

Haruki Murakami

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah...

Deyth Banger

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

Susan B. Anthony

#14. 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

#15. I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Hattie Morahan

#17. 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

#18. I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.

Jean Piaget

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Yeah, don't you take a break?'
'I don't have time for breaks.'
'That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#22. Cate Blanchett and Eileen Atkins are definitely among my top five actresses whose work I aspire to.

Hattie Morahan

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Railroads brought about lasting social effects, as well. The companies' ruthless attention to keeping time impelled passengers to carry pocket watches,* and led to the eventual establishment of time zones.

Simon Winchester

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

Hattie Morahan

#27. I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but ... I promise you, the right man won't care.

Cassandra Clare

#28. A nice landing, boys," Bruenor called as he broke free of the fall. "Give the rocks a big kiss for me!

R.A. Salvatore

#29. 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

#30. I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it!

Hattie Morahan

#31. I've obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.

Hattie Morahan