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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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Present

Honest

Sometimes

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" 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. "

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Pregnant

" 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 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 grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "

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People

Drag

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

" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "

" I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. "

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Twitter

Five

" 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. "

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

" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Time

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Little

" I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "

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Party

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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? "

" I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long. "