Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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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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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 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 had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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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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If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.
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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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I thought I was a sexy symbol!
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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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The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
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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'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.
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I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
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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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When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
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There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.
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It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
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I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.
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All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.