Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

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'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

I think being on a set where people arent being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

I really enjoyed being on movie sets, and I had fun with the people, but I didn't really think about acting or care, or I didn't think I cared about acting.

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen.

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

I dont watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that Im choosing to watch.

All my cousins steal things. Theyre 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.

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

I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

God, the world is so f - ked up, and we all have to do something about it.

It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.

I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

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.

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

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