Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by Gaby Hoffmann - Page 2

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.

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.

My mom could be pretty strict.

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

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.

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.

It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.

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

I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

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.

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 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.

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.

I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!

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.

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

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 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 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.'

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.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'

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

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

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

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

I had so many faux-parents.

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

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?'

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

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.

I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

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 made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

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

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.

Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

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.

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'

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

People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

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

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

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 actually voted for Nader.