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" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Pregnant
Oh
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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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Mother
Artist
Photographer
" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "
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Be Yourself
Yourself
Time
" 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 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
" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Actor
You
Working
" 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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Desire
Belong
Place
" If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Love
Yourself
Think
" I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Amazon
Everybody
Like
" I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "
Gaby Hoffmann
People
Village
World
" 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 grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "
Gaby Hoffmann
People
Up
Drag
" 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
" 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
" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Being
Dolls
Obsessed
" If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Street
Like
Me
" 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 had so many faux-parents. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Had
Many
" 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
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Only
Choosing
Watch
" 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 met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together. "
Gaby Hoffmann
She
Get Together
Fairy
" Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Back
Go
Months
" 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
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Busy
Busy Person
Person
" 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'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Mind
Busy
Peaceful
" When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Work
Reading
Day
" It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning. "
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Think
Community
True
" 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. "
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