A biography for Gaby Hoffmannhasn’t been written yet.
“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?'”
“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.”
“Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.”
“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 certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.”
“There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.”
“I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.”
“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.'”
“I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.”
“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 had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.”
“If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.”
“Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'”
“I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.”
“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.”
“Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.”
“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.”
“My mom could be pretty strict.”
“There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.”
“Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.”