A biography for Martha Plimptonhasn’t been written yet.
“I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.”
“It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.”
“The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.”
“In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.”
“It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.”
“Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.”
“I am a United States citizen and I vote.”
“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'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.”
“When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.”
“I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.”
“My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.”
“I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.”
“A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.”
“Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.”
“I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.”
“I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.”
“I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.”
“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.”
“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.”