Top 43 Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
#1. I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.
Richard Masur
#2. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#3. I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
Gaby Hoffmann
#4. There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.
Gaby Hoffmann
#5. Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
Gaby Hoffmann
#6. Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.
Gaby Hoffmann
#7. If you believed in something strongly and give it enough credence, it could appear right in front of you. Though it had been created in your mind, it would claim a presence in the real world, a monster at your door, a demon pulling at your coat sleeve.
Alice Hoffman
#8. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#9. It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.
Gaby Hoffmann
#11. People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.
Gaby Hoffmann
#12. If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.
Amy Sedaris
#13. I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea.
Gaby Hoffmann
#14. 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
#15. Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.
Andrew Jackson
#16. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#17. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#18. It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
#19. I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic.
Steve Jobs
#20. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#21. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#22. I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
Gaby Hoffmann
#23. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#24. There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
Gaby Hoffmann
#25. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.
Upton Sinclair
#26. I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
Gaby Hoffmann
#27. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#28. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#29. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#30. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#33. He can afford to be a fool.
Horace
#34. My mug had a reindeer in a bathrobe and slippers with Christmas lights laced in its antlers, toasting the merry season with champagne and saying, Bingle Jells.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#35. I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
Gaby Hoffmann
#36. Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.
Orrin Woodward
#37. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#38. I am very much in love with something;
What it may be I can't remember;
It will come to me.
That was a roundabout drive in the snow,
Owing to my erratic sense of direction!
Christopher Fry
#39. My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
Tim Heidecker
#40. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#41. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#42. 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.
Gaby Hoffmann
#43. It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
Roddy Doyle
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