Quotes from Gaby Hoffmann

I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

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.

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 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 was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.

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.

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'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.

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

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.

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

I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

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.

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'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.

People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.