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" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "
Gaby Hoffmann
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "
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" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "
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" I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way. "
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" There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. "
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" I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it. "
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" I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade. "
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" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "
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" Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.' "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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 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 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. "
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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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" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "
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Think
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" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "
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Party
Me
" 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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" 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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" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "
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" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "
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" It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had. "
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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 was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn. "
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" Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written. "
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" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "
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" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "
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" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
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