Merchant, Natalie Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Dear Governor Cuomo

  2012, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Dear Governor Cuomo

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Child's Garden of Poetry

  2011, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Naya Din

  2007, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Earthlings

  2005, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Go Further

  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Up Close and Personal with Natalie Merchant

  2001, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music

  2001, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Best of Sessions at West 54th, Volume 2

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Natalie Merchant: Live in Concert

  1999, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Man in the Sand

  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Natalie Merchant: Live in Concert

  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen ABC 2000: The Millennium

  1999, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Ophelia

  1998, role: actress , character name: Ophelia
• Play in Full Screen Ophelia

  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Ophelia

  1998, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Hard Rock Live

  1997, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Sessions at West 54th

  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen 1996 VH1 Honors

  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 1996

  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 1995

  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 1994

  1994, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Rock and Roll Inaugural Ball

  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 1993

  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Time Capsule

  1990, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Time Capsule

  1990, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen 10,000 Maniacs Time Capsule

  1990, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Natalie Merchant:

"Retrospective 1990-2005 [Limited Edition]"

"That kind of violence is dangerous to me, to be beamed out via satellite to the rest of the country. Since I don't watch television very much, when I do check in, I'm horrified. But I don't think it took a massacre in a high school in America for me to see that there's too much violence or that children aren't being taught to use their own judgment when they watch television."

"I just want to be known as a good songwriter who wrote songs that were enduring. I hope my music gives people a glimpse of how empathetic we were and how desirous we were of a better society."

"I'm in the public eye. I've sold 14 million records -- so 14 million individuals have bought my records and have sat down and intimately listened to them. And if I think about that many people paying attention to me, I'd better say something worthwhile. I do have a personal ideology when it comes to the work that I do and the art that I make. And it's based on just wanting to say something that has substance and to try to move people with music -- and give them an idea of the glimpse I have into what's possible for us."

"My sister works in an inner-city school in Greenville, South Carolina, and she brought many of her at-risk kids to our show yesterday to the sound-check. It was amazing how these kids opened up with music. Music teaches so much about focus and concentration and group dynamics and appreciation for subtlety and beauty. And that's being taken away from schools."

"It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent."

"I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope."

"I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people."

"I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics."

"Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index."

"My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to."

"I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!"

"I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55."

"I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing."

"The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd."

"Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood."

"I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that."

"I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous."

"I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!"

Natalie Merchant