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" I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it. "
Gaby Hoffmann
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" 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. "
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" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "
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" 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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" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "
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" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "
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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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" 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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" I actually voted for Nader. "
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" 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. "
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People
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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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" 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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" I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there. "
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" I had so many faux-parents. "
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" I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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?' "
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