Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.