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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Lucky

People

Fun

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Little

" 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?' "

" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "

Gaby Hoffmann

Pregnant

" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Most

Disneyland

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

Use

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

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

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

" Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Deal

Family

" I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. "

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

" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "

" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Amazon

Everybody

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

" 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. "

" My mom could be pretty strict. "