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
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.
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.
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?'
At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
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.
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 like things that are civilized.
I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.
You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.
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.
There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.
One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?