Martha Plimpton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.”
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“I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.”
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“When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.”
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“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.”
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“I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.”
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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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“There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.”
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“One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?”
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“I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.”
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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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“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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“You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.”
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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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“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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“Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!”
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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 not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.”
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“I am a United States citizen and I vote.”
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“I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.”
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“I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.”
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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've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.”
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“It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.”
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“Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.”
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“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.”
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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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“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.”
-- Martha Plimpton
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