Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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'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 certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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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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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.
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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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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 never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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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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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.