Top 55 Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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.

It’s very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we’re still shocked by the female figure.

I was born naked. I’m a natural. I’m a natural nude. So I’ve been on camera naked a lot.

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.

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 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.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn’t end up really doing that in the end.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there’s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she’ll get another paycheck. I have no idea.

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.

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.

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

There’s plenty of great independent films to do, but you can’t support yourself making independent film as an actress.

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

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?’

Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.

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.

My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

It’s hard to live in a blind and aimless – or dishonest, rather – narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward – or at least think they are and say they are – their true self.

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 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.

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

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.

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 thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid’s body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.

I actually voted for Nader.

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.

I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.

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 had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.

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 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.

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.

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.

I was watching ‘Pulp Fiction‘ when we were making ‘Now and Then’. I didn’t care about ‘Now and Then,’ you know?

Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.

Oh, I’m pregnant on ‘Girls.’

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.

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

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I’ve since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

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.

I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called ‘Transparent.’

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn’t end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn’t really think about it in any practical way.

I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

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.

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.

I’ve always looked the same, and every 10 years, I’m a little bit in fashion.

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

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!’