Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Gaby Hoffmann

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• I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Take

• Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Together

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Myself
  • See
  • Celebrity

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
  • Give
  • Physician

• 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.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• 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?

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Problems

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Work
  • Winning

• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Mean
  • Dirt
  • Umpire

• All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Home
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• 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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hurt
  • Feel
  • Humiliated

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

  

  David Caruso
  • Risk

• Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Color
  • Use

• Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Acting
  • Theatre
  • Expression

• I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Acting