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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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

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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. "

" 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 think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "

" Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous. "

" I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age. "

" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Time

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

" 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. "

" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

Use

" 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. "

" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "

" 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. "

" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

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Five

" 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. "

" 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. "