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" 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. "

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" I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Twitter

Five

" 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. "

" The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s. "

" 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. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Because

Day

" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Feels

Use

" 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

Months

" I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "

" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "

" 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!' "

" 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 had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. "

Gaby Hoffmann

Little

" I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one. "

" 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 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?' "

" 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 thought I was a sexy symbol! "