Martha Plimpton quotes

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs. (Martha Plimpton)
When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.
Martha Plimpton
I like to try new things. I like to go new places and I like to work with new people. That's sort of the definition of my job. As an actor, you just go where the work is, right.
Martha Plimpton
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.
Martha Plimpton
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
Martha Plimpton
People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
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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. This is the '80s to me. And a lot of synthesizer music. And, of course, Madonna and the beginning of MTV.
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I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
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I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
Martha Plimpton
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
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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. (Martha Plimpton)
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
Martha Plimpton
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.
Martha Plimpton
In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.
Martha Plimpton
I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.
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As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
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I live like a crazy old pack rat.
Martha Plimpton
I like things that are civilized.
Martha Plimpton
I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.
Martha Plimpton
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater. (Martha Plimpton)
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.
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I don't pay attention to the ratings.
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If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.
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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.
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