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" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Sugar
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You
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" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "
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" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "
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" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "
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" 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. "
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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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" My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused. "
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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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" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "
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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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" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
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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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" All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again. "
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" My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory. "
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" I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. "
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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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" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "
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" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "
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" 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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" When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' "
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" I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball. "
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" I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "
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