Gaby Hoffmann

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. ”

The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s. ”

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. ”

Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right. ”

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

I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. ”

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

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible. ”

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

I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more. ”