Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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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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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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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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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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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 don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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'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 often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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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'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 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 was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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I thought I was a sexy symbol!
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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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.