Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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Gaby Hoffmann

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 8, 1982

As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.

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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

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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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People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.

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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

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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 just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.

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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.

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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.

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Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

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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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I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'

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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'

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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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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.

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