Quotes from Martha Plimpton


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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?'


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.


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.


I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.


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


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


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


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


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


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


I live like a crazy old pack rat.


I like things that are civilized.


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


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


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


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.


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