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" I had so many faux-parents. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Had
Many
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" There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living. "
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" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
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" I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Time
Thought
" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "
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Little
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" My mom could be pretty strict. "
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Mom
Could
" 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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Up
New York
" 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. "
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Fun
Kid
Financial
" 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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Present
Honest
Sometimes
" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "
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Birthday Party
Party
Me
" 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
" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "
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Being
Dolls
Obsessed
" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "
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Moment
History
Present
" 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. "
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Know
Funny
Life
" 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 was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "
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Amazon
Everybody
Like
" 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 think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good. "
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Doing
Community
Think
" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "
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Thought
Sexy
Symbol
" 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
You
Say
" I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square. "
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Wanted
Just
Square
" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "
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Explore
Childhood
Want
" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "
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Understand
You
" 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
" There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. "
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People
Now
Media