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Gaby Hoffmann

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 8, 1982

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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Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!

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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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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

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I'm normally the least busy person I know.

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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

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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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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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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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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.

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People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

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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'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

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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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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

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

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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

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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 don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

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