Quotes By Martha Plimpton

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.

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

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 like things that are civilized.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

Actors, they come and go, you know.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

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'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.

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.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

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

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.