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" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Desire
Belong
Place
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" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
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Just
Never
Thought
" 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. "
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Age
Time
World
" 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. "
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Nobody
Nice
Space
" I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch. "
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Think
Fun
" 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. "
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Weird
Movies
Crazy
" Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. "
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Tell
Understand
You
" I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. "
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Kid
Relationship
People
" 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. "
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House
Society
Summer
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Way
Raised
Where
" 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?' "
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Work
Reading
Day
" My mom could be pretty strict. "
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Strict
Mom
Could
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Doing
Community
Think
" 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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Lucky
People
Fun
" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "
Gaby Hoffmann
Pregnant
Oh
" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Finance
Biggest
Campaign
" The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money. "
Gaby Hoffmann
New York
Great
World
" History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Moment
History
Present
" My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Family
Up
New York
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Space
Be Yourself
Face
" People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Being
Dolls
Obsessed
" 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 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Good
You
Uncle
" I'm normally the least busy person I know. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Busy
Busy Person
Person
" There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'. "
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Lot
Improv
" I thought I was a sexy symbol! "
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Thought
Sexy
Symbol
" Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it. "
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Self-Confidence
Incredible
Loud
" 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. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Love
Home
Relationship