Quotes By Martha Plimpton

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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?'

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

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.

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

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

Who owns your body? You or the state?

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

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

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

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 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.

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

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

I like things that are civilized.