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Gaby Hoffmann
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" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
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" 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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" 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 had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "
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" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "
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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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Off
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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.' "
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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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Parents
Value
Potential
" 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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People
You
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" 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. "
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Desire
Belong
Place
" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "
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Tell
Understand
You
" 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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Film
" I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Age
Time
World
" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "
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You
Care
Fiction
" 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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End
Writing
Literature
" I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Her
Friend
She
" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Think
Boundaries
Myself
" 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
" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "
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Great
Think
Somebody
" I've never been on a television show as a regular before. "
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Show
Never
Been
" 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. "
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Experience
Back
Go
" It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore. "
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Nobody
Nice
Space
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Busy
Busy Person
Person
" I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Her
She
Whatever
" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "
Gaby Hoffmann
Thought
Sexy
Symbol
" I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. "
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Child
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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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Space
Be Yourself
Face
" I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. "
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Me
Like
Little
" 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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She
Get Together
Fairy
" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "
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