Martha Plimpton

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

“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.”

“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 like things that are civilized.”

“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.”

“Who owns your body? You or the state?”

“It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.”

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

“As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.”

“Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.”

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

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

“I live like a crazy old pack rat.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“I love dogs because they're so adaptable.”

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

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