Martha Plimpton

Model

1970-11-16

Quotes by Martha Plimpton

• It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

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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.

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• I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

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• In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

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• 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.

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