Quotes from Gaby Hoffmann

I'm normally the least busy person I know.

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

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 basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'

As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

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.

My mom could be pretty strict.

If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.

Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'

If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.

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

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

It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

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 often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.

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.