“I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.” MadeReasonMomentsKidsChoicesActorsHappenedIrrelevant Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I really enjoyed being on movie sets, and I had fun with the people, but I didn't really think about acting or care, or I didn't think I cared about acting.” PeopleThinkingCareFunActingEnjoyedI CareMovie SetsHad FunI Had Fun Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“It wasn't until I was in college that I even realized how much I loved film and started to appreciate acting, this beautiful medium of artistic expression. All I wanted to do was go to college, and I thought I wanted to be a teacher.” WantedBeautifulFilmActingTeacherCollegeExpressionAppreciateMediumsArtisticArtistic Expression Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.” WorldWritingYearsWarRealStatesSpiritualPoliticalLiteratureStuffStudyIdentityCollegeCoupleBecomingAdultsCrisisFocusedAwakeningSpiritual AwakeningIdentity CrisisBecoming An Adult Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“God, the world is so f - ked up, and we all have to do something about it.” WorldKeds Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.” WayRealWantedUsedDesireForceBitsRichFiguresTwentiesPainfulWoodsTinyMaking MoneyApartmentConfusingParticipating Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.” ThinkingWallSummerBuiltStonesCookingStone WallsDoulas Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I thought, I'm just going to give as much attention and curiosity to acting as I did to like making my coffee in the morning and see how that feels, rather than resisting it and angsting, and it turned out it felt great.” GivingFeelsFeltActingAttentionMorningCuriosityCoffeeResisting Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.” IfsGivingLeadershipBusinessExampleWords Of WisdomEmployeeGood ExamplesGood LeadershipIkeaFlashy Cars Author:Ingvar Kamprad
“That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.” TryingI CanWorryFiguresTransition Author:Gaby Hoffmann