Explore Quotes by Gaby Hoffmann

I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

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 really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

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

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 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.

The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

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 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.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

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

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

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.

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

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.

All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

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.

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

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.

I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

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.