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" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Same
Little
Fashion
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" There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living. "
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You
Women
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Desire
Belong
Place
" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Most
Disneyland
Me
" Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Parents
Value
Potential
" I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. "
Gaby Hoffmann
End
Writing
Literature
" I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Watch
Out
Media
" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Thing
How
People
" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "
Gaby Hoffmann
You
Care
Fiction
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Down
You
See
" I've never been on a television show as a regular before. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Show
Never
Been
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
College
Mother
Job
" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "
Gaby Hoffmann
New York
Age
Run
" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Lot
Improv
" I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Realize
College
Lost
" I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Doing
Community
Think
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Love
Home
Relationship
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
House
Society
Summer
" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Finance
Biggest
Campaign
" It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Nobody
Nice
Space
" I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Kid
Relationship
People
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Been
Think
Strange
" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Just
Never
Thought
" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Now And Then
Now
My Life
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Try
Table
Single
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Off
Think
Years
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Time
Me
Like
" Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Me
Deal
Family
" My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Mother
Children
Present
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Money
Mother
Sister
" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Great
Think
Somebody