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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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Doing

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" My mom could be pretty strict. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid. "

" As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain. "

" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "

" My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Family

New York

" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "

" I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "

Gaby Hoffmann

Street

" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Most

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn. "

" I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch. "

" I've never been on a television show as a regular before. "

" I actually voted for Nader. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "

" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "