Martha Plimpton Quotes

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

I am one of the few men in public life who doesn't complain much about his treatment as the hands of the press. The press takes me to task every once in a while, but they have always been very kind, not attributing my hypocrisy to bad motives. They have always attributed it to a lack of mental capacity.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives. It's like yeah, I get on planes a lot, and I drank from a plastic water bottle today - you know what I'm saying? A lot of people would just be like, "Oh, you're a hypocrite. You live in an ecovillage for a month, and then you fly around the world to talk about a movie." Don't think that I don't think about those things! Don't think that that's not, like, a quandary in my life. It can be a pretty intense ethical dilemma. I think it's about figuring out, you know, navigating life.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.

Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

Now I just don't know who to tell to go to hell Who put the old devil in the distorted angel?

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.