Martha Plimpton Quotes

• Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

• Who owns your body? You or the state?

  Martha Plimpton

• When you’re working with good people it brings good things out in you.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Things tend to come when they are meant to come

  Martha Plimpton

• Things come to you in life when you’re prepared for them, when you’re ready for them.

  Martha Plimpton

• There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

  Martha Plimpton

• There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

  Martha Plimpton

• The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

• See, I don’t watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

  Martha Plimpton

• People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they’re jerks or not.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

• My mom just didn’t put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

  Martha Plimpton

• My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn’t expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world – she did not expect to adjust to mine.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

• 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.

  Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton (62)

Birth:	16th November, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model, Singer

Related Authors

• Glenda Jackson
• Evanna Lynch
• Fran Lebowitz
• Cecilia Bartoli
• Jeri Ryan
• Denise Crosby
• Cheryl James
• Nancy Reagan
• Louise Fletcher
• Sophie Marceau

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 18th March

Births

• 1939 - Ron Atkinson
• 1858 - Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
• 1989 - Lily Jane Collins
• 1946 - Reggie Jackson
• 1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev

Deaths

• 2003 - Adam Osborne
• 1745 - Robert Walpole
• 1871 - Augustus de Morgan
• 1768 - Laurence Sterne
• 1964 - Norbert Wiener