Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

From the time I was 16, I wanted to live in Paris. When I graduated college and didn't have a job, I went to take the LSAT because I didn't know what else to do. I walked out in the middle of the test and eventually found an internship in Paris at L'Oreal.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada and moved to the big city of Vancouver. I kind of had to decide right there in that moment what I was going to do with the rest of my life and make a thousand decisions after finishing high school. Fortunately, I chose acting.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.