Quotes By Martha Plimpton

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

Who owns your body? You or the state?

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

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.

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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