A biography for Martha Plimptonhasn’t been written yet.
“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 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.”
“Actors, they come and go, you know.”
“It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.”
“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 don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.”
“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.”
“I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.”
“I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.”
“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 don't pay attention to the ratings.”
“There are so many brilliant women on television right now.”
“I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.”
“At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.”
“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.”
“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?'”
“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.”
“The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.”