148 Quotes by Gaby Hoffmann

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.