Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.

I am human, all too bloody human.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I'm only a human being.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You've got to go for it.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

It's very hard to play a man without any flaws.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.