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.
— Gaby Hoffmann
There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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.
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.
People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
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 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 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.
I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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 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's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.
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 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.
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.
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.
Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
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.
