Gaby Hoffmann quotes

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. (Gaby Hoffmann)

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

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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.

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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.

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God, the world is so f - ked up, and we all have to do something about it.

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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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I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

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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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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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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

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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. (Gaby Hoffmann)

I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

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I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.

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I thought, I'm just going to give as much attention and curiosity to acting as I did to like making my coffee in the morning and see how that feels, rather than resisting it and angsting, and it turned out it felt great.

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Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

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I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

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It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling.

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I always knew when I graduated from high school I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Gaby Hoffmann

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 dont watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that Im choosing to watch. (Gaby Hoffmann)

I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.

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I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

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I really enjoyed being on movie sets, and I had fun with the people, but I didn't really think about acting or care, or I didn't think I cared about acting.

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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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Gaby Hoffmann

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: January 8, 1982
Quotes count: 29

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