Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
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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.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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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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Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
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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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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
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I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!