Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Weird

Movies

Crazy

Related Quotes:

" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "

" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "

" 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 wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea. "

" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "

" My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present. "

" We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare. "

" 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.' "

" I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?' "

" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Amazon

Everybody

" I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women. "

" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "

Gaby Hoffmann

Pregnant

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Street

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.' "

" 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. "

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