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
There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
Once when we were fifteen, River (Phoenix) and I went out for this fancy dinner in Manhattan and I ordered soft-shell crabs. He left the restaurant and walked around on Park Avenue, crying. I went out and said, "I love you so much. Why?" He had such a pain that I was eating an animal, that he hadn't impressed on me what was right. I loved him for that. For his dramatic desire that we share every belief, that I be with him all the way
It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.
It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
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.
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!
Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
I love dogs because they're so adaptable.