110 Quotes by Martha Plimpton

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

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

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.

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.

I’ve been doing old-people things since I was a child.

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.

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.

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

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?’