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" I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout. "

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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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Yourself

Film

" 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

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

" We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. "

" 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. "

" 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 never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one. "

" I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square. "

" 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

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Amazon

Everybody

" 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 just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.' "

" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "

" 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 thought I was a sexy symbol! "

" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "

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

" 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 certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present. "

" My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Most

Disneyland

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up. "

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

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

Use

" 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. "

" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Lot

Improv