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" Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.' "

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" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "

Gaby Hoffmann

New York

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Run

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

" 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. "

" I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "

" It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

Use

" 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. "

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

" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "

" My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Family

New York

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

" 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. "

" My mom could be pretty strict. "

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

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

" 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 actually voted for Nader. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Actually

Voted

" I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Think

World