Martha Plimpton Quotes
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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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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 don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
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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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As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
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It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
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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 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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Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
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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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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?'
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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.