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" Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Experience

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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. "

" 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. "

" We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. "

" 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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" The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory. "

" It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure. "

" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "

" I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it. "

" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "

" 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. "

" My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused. "

" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "

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

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Street

" 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. "

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

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" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "

" Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women. "

" Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "

" Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. "

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

" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "

" I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. "

" Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous. "

" Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it. "

" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Because

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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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Time

" 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. "