Gaby Hoffmann

“I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.”

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

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

“I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.”

“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 actually voted for Nader.”

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

“History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.”

“All my cousins steal things. They're 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.”

“We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.”

“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.”

“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!'”

“I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.”

“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 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.”

“It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.”