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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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" I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there. "

Martha Plimpton

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

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

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

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

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

" I am a United States citizen and I vote. "

Martha Plimpton

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United States

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

Martha Plimpton

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Bored

" 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've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem. "

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

Martha Plimpton

Sleep

I Am

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

" I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently. "

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

" I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character. "

Martha Plimpton

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" It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. "

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

" 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. "

" Who owns your body? You or the state? "

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

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