Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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The rogue states have to be told that there are lines that cannot be crossed.
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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
