Quotes By Martha Plimpton

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

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

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.

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 not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

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.

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

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.

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

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 love dogs because they're so adaptable.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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?'

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.

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.

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

Who owns your body? You or the state?

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

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