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" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Myself
Say
Feel
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" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "
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" 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. "
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Early
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
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Busy Person
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" 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. "
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" I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more. "
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Kid
Childhood
Body
" People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!' "
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People
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" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
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Now And Then
Now
My Life
" 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. "
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She
Get Together
Fairy
" There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. "
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People
Now
Media
" 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. "
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Collaboration
World
People
" I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "
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Psychology
Human
Analysis
" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "
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Most
Disneyland
Me
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Parents
Value
Potential
" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "
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Street
Like
Me
" If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Love
Yourself
Think
" 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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Family
Up
New York
" I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. "
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Kid
Relationship
People
" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "
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Sugar
Your
You
" 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. "
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House
Society
Summer
" I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. "
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End
Writing
Literature
" Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family. "
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Me
Deal
Family
" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "
Gaby Hoffmann
Thought
Sexy
Symbol
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Desire
Belong
Place
" 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
" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
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Actor
You
Working
" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Think
Boundaries
Myself
" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "
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Same
Little
Fashion
" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "
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Great
Think
Somebody
" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
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Just
Never
Thought
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Try
Table
Single