Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
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I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
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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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People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
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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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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.
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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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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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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 mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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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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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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It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
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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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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.
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I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good.
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Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.