Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

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.

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.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

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

Who owns your body? You or the state?

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

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

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