Martha Plimpton Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

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.

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

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

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

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

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

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

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

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

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

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

Actors, they come and go, you know.

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.

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

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.

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 love dogs because they're so adaptable.

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

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

Who owns your body? You or the state?

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

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

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

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

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.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.