Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
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There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
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I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
