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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
— Martha Plimpton
I like things that are civilized.
— Martha Plimpton
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
— Martha Plimpton
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
— Martha Plimpton
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.
— Martha Plimpton
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
— John Hodgman
I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.
— Martha Plimpton
I am a United States citizen and I vote.
— Martha Plimpton
I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.
— Martha Plimpton
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
— George Plimpton
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
— George Plimpton
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.
— Martha Plimpton
...and so it was that my wealth came to be measured in books
— Colleen Plimpton
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
— George Plimpton
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I'm sort of crazy baffoon who can't make up his mind what to do in life
— George Plimpton
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
— George Plimpton
Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.
— George Plimpton
I almost never have a plan for myself ... I'm not ambitious in that way.
— Martha Plimpton
During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.
— Martha Plimpton
Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
— Martha Plimpton
Actors, they come and go, you know.
— Martha Plimpton
One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?
— Martha Plimpton
There are so many brilliant women on television right now.
— Martha Plimpton
In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.
— Martha Plimpton
I don't pay attention to the ratings.
— Martha Plimpton
I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.
— Martha Plimpton
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.
— Martha Plimpton
When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.
— Martha Plimpton
I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.
— Martha Plimpton
People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
— Martha Plimpton
The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
— George Plimpton
I love dogs because they're so adaptable.
— Martha Plimpton
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
— Martha Plimpton
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.
— Martha Plimpton
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.
— Martha Plimpton
It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
— Martha Plimpton
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.
— Martha Plimpton
You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.
— Martha Plimpton
A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
— Martha Plimpton
It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.
— Martha Plimpton
He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.
— George Plimpton
I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.
— Martha Plimpton
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
— George Plimpton
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
— Martha Plimpton
I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.
— Martha Plimpton
Who owns your body? You or the state?
— Martha Plimpton
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
— Martha Plimpton
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
— Martha Plimpton
At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
— Martha Plimpton
I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
— Martha Plimpton
I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
— Martha Plimpton
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
— Martha Plimpton
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him
— George Plimpton
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.
— George Plimpton
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
— Martha Plimpton
I live like a crazy old pack rat.
— Martha Plimpton
I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.
— Martha Plimpton
Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.
— Stefan Fatsis
I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.
— Martha Plimpton