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Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

American - Actress | January 8, 1982 -

Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

Creativity Value Parents Potential

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.

Family You Down Never Cousins See

I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.

Life Good My Life You Uncle Movies

I'm normally the least busy person I know.

Busy Person Know Busy Person Least

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

People Barbie Being Dolls Obsessed

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

School Writing End Literature Doing

If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'

Day Me Nice Street Smiles Hi

I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

Family Live Grateful Thought You

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.

Mother Ego Environment Unique Person

I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.

Good Humor Fun Think Sense Of Humor

I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

Relationship People Loved Movies Kid

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.

Family Live Think Blind Self True

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