Quotes from Martha Plimpton

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

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.

I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

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

I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

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

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.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

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.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

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.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

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.

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

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.

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.

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

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.