Quotes from Gaby Hoffmann

I actually voted for Nader.

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.

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

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

I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

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

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.

My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

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

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

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 watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?'

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'