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" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

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" 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. "

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" 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 don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch. "

" It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

Use

" Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Experience

Back

" 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 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. "

" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "

Gaby Hoffmann

Street

" I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. "

" People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!' "

" I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

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" 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.' "