Martha Plimpton Quotes

My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.