Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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

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've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

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

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

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

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

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.

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.

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

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 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.

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

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

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 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.

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.

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 don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

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 don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.