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" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "
Gaby Hoffmann
I Was Born
Natural
Born
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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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New York
Age
Run
" 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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Off
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Years
" There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. "
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Yourself
Film
" 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. "
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Doing
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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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Mind
Busy
Peaceful
" 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. "
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Sacrifice
People
" 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. "
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Fun
Kid
Financial
" 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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Kid
Relationship
People
" 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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More
Because
Day
" I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "
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Carefully
Quite
Curate
" I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now. "
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Weird
Movies
Crazy
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Busy
Busy Person
Person
" I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. "
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Mental Illness
Think
Talk
" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "
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Moment
History
Present
" 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
More
" My mom could be pretty strict. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Strict
Mom
Could
" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Feels
Like
Use
" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Amazon
Everybody
Like
" Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Self-Confidence
Incredible
Loud
" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Thing
How
People
" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Tell
Understand
You
" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Think
Boundaries
Myself
" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "
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Most
Disneyland
Me
" Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. "
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Acting
Out
Trying
" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
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Now And Then
Now
My Life
" 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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Kid
Childhood
Body
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
She
Unique
Environment
" As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain. "
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Look
Good
You
" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "
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Street
Like
Me
" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "
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Finance
Biggest
Campaign