Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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Gaby Hoffmann

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 8, 1982

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

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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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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 don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.

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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 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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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

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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 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 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 started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

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It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

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

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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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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 am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

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I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

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I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

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