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" 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 met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together. "

Gaby Hoffmann

She

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Fairy

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

" 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. "

" Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' "

" 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

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

" I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't. "

" My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

People

Drag

" 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. "

" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "

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

" 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

Day

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

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

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

" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "

" I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way. "

" 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. "

" 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

Back

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Little

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

" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "