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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'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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

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

" Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for. "

" 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. "

" I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable. "

" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "

" I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one. "

" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "

" 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. "

" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "

" 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. "

" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "

" I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Little

" 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. "

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

" The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

Street

" 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'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!' "

" 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. "

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

" It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning. "

" 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. "

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

Gaby Hoffmann

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" I actually voted for Nader. "

Gaby Hoffmann

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" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "

" I had so many faux-parents. "

Gaby Hoffmann

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