Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
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I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.
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I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
