#so

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?' ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#best #best friend #character #fat #friend

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. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#ago #beginning #did #end #entirely

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo. ↗

— Noel Redding

#came #i #i came #solo #telling

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. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#access #availability #been #benefits #children

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. ↗

— Plutarch

#also #deeds #great #greatly #must

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. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#been #call #came #downtown #guess

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

#change #escape #forever #going #interviews

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. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

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. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#come #i #i think #kind #know

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. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#come #done #feel #i #i feel