Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.
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When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.
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Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
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One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
