Explore Quotes by Gaby Hoffmann

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.

You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!

I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.

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.

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

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

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 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.

Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'

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 wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.

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.

There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.

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.

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.'

Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!