Quotes By Martha Plimpton

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?'

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.

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.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

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.

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.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

I like things that are civilized.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.