Martha Plimpton Quotes

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

I like things that are civilized.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. "Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?"

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.