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" 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
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" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "
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" I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot. "
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I Was Born
Natural
Born
" Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there. "
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Experience
Back
Go
" I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing. "
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College
School
Study
" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "
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Way
Raised
Where
" It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had. "
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More
Because
Day
" 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
" I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square. "
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Wanted
Just
Square
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
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Busy
Busy Person
Person
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Want
Work
Space
" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Amazon
Everybody
Like
" I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Great
Think
Somebody
" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Explore
Childhood
Want
" 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 had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "
Gaby Hoffmann
People
Village
World
" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "
Gaby Hoffmann
Birthday Party
Party
Me
" 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
" 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 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 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Her
Friend
She
" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Tell
Understand
You
" I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Long
She
Want
" I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Collaboration
World
People
" I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.' "
Gaby Hoffmann
My Life
Acting
Back
" 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
" The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Memory
Proven
Your
" 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'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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Interesting
Best
Time
" I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Grateful
Family
You
" Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Most
Disneyland
Me