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" I actually voted for Nader. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Actually
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" I had so many faux-parents. "
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" My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Live
" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
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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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" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
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" I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. "
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" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "
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Like
Use
" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "
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Time
" I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea. "
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" There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. "
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" 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. "
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New York
Great
World
" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "
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Thing
How
People
" The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory. "
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Memory
Proven
Your
" Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids. "
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Mother
Artist
Photographer
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Weird
Movies
Crazy
" I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea. "
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Grateful
Family
You
" I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Film
Acting
School
" 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'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Psychology
Human
Analysis
" I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. "
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" 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. "
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She
Unique
Environment
" 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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Been
Think
Strange
" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "
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You
Care
Fiction
" 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. "
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Want
Work
Space
" I've never been on a television show as a regular before. "
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Show
Never
Been
" It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Nobody
Nice
Space
" I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Carefully
Quite
Curate