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" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

College

School

Study

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Gaby Hoffmann

Back

Months

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

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

" 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'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!' "

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

" 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. "

" 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 never been on a television show as a regular before. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid. "

" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "

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

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Pregnant

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

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

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

" 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

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Most

Disneyland

" 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

" 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. "

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