Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable. "

Related Quotes:

" I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Work

Culture

American

" There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. "

" 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.' "

" My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s. "

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

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

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" My mom could be pretty strict. "

" 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 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 had so many faux-parents. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Had

Many

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

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

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

Use

" It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets. "

" I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. "

" There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. "

" 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. "

" It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure. "

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

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