I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. Gaby Hoffmann More Quotes by Gaby Hoffmann More Quotes From Gaby Hoffmann Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring. Gaby Hoffmann so-boringlooking-goodboring 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. Gaby Hoffmann narrativeemotionalplay 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. Gaby Hoffmann wantlooksthinking 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. Gaby Hoffmann actorschoiceskids I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen. Gaby Hoffmann i-quitquittingkids I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it. Gaby Hoffmann seven-yearsschoolthinking 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. Gaby Hoffmann cousinthievesstealing I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. Gaby Hoffmann 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. Gaby Hoffmann levelspeoplethinking 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. Gaby Hoffmann netflixwatches Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. Gaby Hoffmann figuresactingtrying 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. Gaby Hoffmann collegewritingschool Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress. Gaby Hoffmann actressessupportindependent I'm normally the least busy person I know. Gaby Hoffmann personknowbusy-personbusy My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after. Gaby Hoffmann personegouniquemother 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. Gaby Hoffmann my-lifegoodyoulife I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. Gaby Hoffmann mevillagepeopleworld 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. Gaby Hoffmann metalentmoneymother People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. Gaby Hoffmann beingbarbiedollspeople 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. Gaby Hoffmann truechildcollegepersonality
