Martha Plimpton Quotes

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Inspiration
  • Obligation

• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Minds
  • Big

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • Help
  • Mom

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Me
  • Team

• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

  

  Ian Botham
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  • Together
  • Emotions

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
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  • Sure

• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
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• 'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Movie

• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Teach

• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

  

  Dean Jones
  • People
  • Mind
  • Happy

• It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

  

  John Carpenter
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Family
  • House
  • Gym

• Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • People

• I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

  

  Martha Plimpton
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