Quotes from Martha Plimpton

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.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

If I'm enjoying myself, I find my opportunities for more fun become greater.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

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.

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

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

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.

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.

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.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

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.

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.