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" 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. "

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" I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Know

Funny

Life

" I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now. "

" 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. "

" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "

" I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything. "

" I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. "

" 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 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?' "

" If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door. "

" I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. "

" 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. "

" People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Time

" I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it. "

" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "

" I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part. "

" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Experience

Back

" I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film. "

" I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good. "

" We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. "

" I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. "

" 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. "