Martha Plimpton Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Character, Time Keeping, Giving

  "'Raising Hope's' Martha Plimpton on Her Emmy Nomination, 'I Was Doubly Surprised'". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

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• 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?"

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  Best Friend, Character, Thinking

  "Searching for Debra Winger". Documentary, July 13, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Character, Thinking, Zing

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• You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

  Martha Plimpton

  Eye

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• 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.

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  Mother, New York, Hollywood

  "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

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  Ambitious, Way, Plans

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• The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

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  Equality, Too Much, Way

  Twitter post from Mar 5, 2012

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• A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

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  Country, Struggle, People

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

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  Thinking, People, Speak

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

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  Trying, Belief, Fierce

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• I am a United States citizen and I vote.

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  United States, Citizens, Vote

  "Uniting on the War Against Women" by Marcia G. Yerman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.

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  Bored

  "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

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  People, I've Learned, Knows

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• 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.

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  Care, Lectures, Morality

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• Who owns your body? You or the state?

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  Body, States, Your Body

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

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  Independent, Film, Independent Film

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 2009.

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

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  Thinking, Audience, Living Organisms

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• I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

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  Dog, Dog Love, Adaptable

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• I don't pay attention to the ratings.

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  Attention, Pay, Pay Attention

  "'Raising Hope's' Martha Plimpton on Her Emmy Nomination, 'I Was Doubly Surprised'". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.

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  Real, Insane, World

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• 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.

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  Summer, Mom, Country

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

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  Bored, Repeats

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

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  Unusual, Situation, Making A Living

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• 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.

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  Rights, Needs, Movement

  "Uniting on the War Against Women" by Marcia G. Yerman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Real, Class, Office

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 1999.

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