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" I've never been on a television show as a regular before. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Show
Never
Been
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" 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. "
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" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "
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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 had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. "
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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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" 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. "
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" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "
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" I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "
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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 started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film. "
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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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" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "
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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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Me
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" I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.' "
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Amazon
Just
New
" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "
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Amazon
Everybody
Like
" There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living. "
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Few
You
Women
" 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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Lucky
People
Fun
" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "
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Pregnant
Oh
" I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "
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World
" 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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Yourself
Film
" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "
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Yourself
Time
" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "
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Great
Think
Somebody
" I had so many faux-parents. "
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Had
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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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Weird
Movies
Crazy
" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
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Now And Then
Now
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" 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. "
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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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Belong
Place
" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "
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Raised
Where
" 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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" I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square. "
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