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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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Family
Up
New York
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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?' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Morning
Breakfast
Mom
" 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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College
Time
Thought
" I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "
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Carefully
Quite
Curate
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Work
Culture
American
" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Sugar
Your
You
" 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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Her
Friend
She
" I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Her
She
Whatever
" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Finance
Biggest
Campaign
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Lucky
People
Fun
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Age
Time
World
" There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. "
Gaby Hoffmann
You
Yourself
Film
" I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Mental Illness
Think
Talk
" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Way
Raised
Where
" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Sense Of Humor
Think
Fun
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Twitter
Five
More
" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Long
She
Want
" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Moment
History
Present
" Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Acting
Out
Trying
" I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Want
Sacrifice
People
" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Being
Dolls
Obsessed
" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Same
Little
Fashion
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Busy
Busy Person
Person
" 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
Fun
Kid
Financial
" 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
" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "
Gaby Hoffmann
Birthday Party
Party
Me
" I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Think
World
Me
" There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. "
Gaby Hoffmann
People
Now
Media
" I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Now And Then
Now
My Life
" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "
Gaby Hoffmann
I Was Born
Natural
Born
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Good
You
Uncle