Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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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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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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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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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
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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 know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.
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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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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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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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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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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 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.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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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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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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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 was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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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 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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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.