Martha Plimpton Quotes

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

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.

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.

Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way

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

Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?"

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

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.

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.