MARTHA PLIMPTON

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

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.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

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.

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.

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

I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

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

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.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

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

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

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

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?'

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