Martha Plimpton Quotes
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Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
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I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
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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.
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I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.
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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.
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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.
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I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.
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My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
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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.
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I love dogs because they're so adaptable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
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I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
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I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
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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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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
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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.
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It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
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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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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
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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.
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I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.