Martha Plimpton Goonies Quotes

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

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

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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

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

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

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

I love dogs because they're so adaptable. ~ Martha Plimpton

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?' ~ Martha Plimpton

I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me. ~ Winona Ryder

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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

I don't pay attention to the ratings. ~ Martha Plimpton

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting. ~ Martha Plimpton

'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.' ~ Jim O'Heir

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

I like things that are civilized. ~ Martha Plimpton

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

I live like a crazy old pack rat. ~ Martha Plimpton

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 ~ Martha Plimpton

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

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

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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

Who owns your body? You or the state? ~ Martha Plimpton

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in. ~ Martha Plimpton

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least. ~ Martha Plimpton

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

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

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

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Martha Plimpton

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. ~ Martha Plimpton