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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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
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" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
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" I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I actually voted for Nader. "
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" People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me. "
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" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "
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" Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.' "
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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 curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "
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" I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really. "
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" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "
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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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" My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money. "
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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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" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "
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