Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.