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" People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!' "
Gaby Hoffmann
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" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "
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" My mom could be pretty strict. "
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Could
" I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it. "
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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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" I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. "
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How
People
" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "
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Oh
" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
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Actor
You
Working
" I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.' "
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Amazon
Just
New
" 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. "
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Space
Be Yourself
Face
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
College
Time
Thought
" We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare. "
Gaby Hoffmann
House
Society
Summer
" 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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Fun
Kid
Financial
" 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'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Psychology
Human
Analysis
" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Same
Little
Fashion
" I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "
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People
Village
World
" 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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Been
Think
Strange
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Think
Community
True
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Parents
Value
Potential
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Busy
Busy Person
Person
" I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Famous
Age
Business
" I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Child
See
Acting
" 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 had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out. "
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Long
She
Want
" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "
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Lot
Improv
" 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
" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Finance
Biggest
Campaign
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
College
Mother
Job
" 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 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. "
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Good
You
Uncle