Martha Plimpton Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

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

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?'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Who owns your body? You or the state?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Actors, they come and go, you know.

I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

I like things that are civilized.

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.

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