Quotes from Martha Plimpton

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

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

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

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.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

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

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

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.

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.

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.

I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

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.

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.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

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?'

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.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.