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" I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Think
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" 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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" 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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" 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!' "
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" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it. "
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" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "
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Raised
Where
" 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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" All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again. "
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" I had so many faux-parents. "
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" 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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" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" My mom could be pretty strict. "
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" Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it. "
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" I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college. "
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" I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.' "
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" 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. "
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" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
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