Martha Plimpton
Martha Plimpton
Martha Campbell Plimptonis an American stage, film, and television actress, singer, and former model. Her feature film debut was in The River Ratbefore rising to prominence in the Richard Donner film The Goonies. She has also appeared in The Mosquito Coast, Running on Empty, Parenthood, Raising Hopeand Small Town Murder Songs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth16 November 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.
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.
People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
I am a United States citizen and I vote.
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.
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.
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.
Who owns your body? You or the state?
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.