Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, because I was a swimmer, and being naked in front of people now, doesn't really bother me.

My parents were obsessed with us being normal kids, so I never knew movie stars. They didn't want us to be Hollywood brats.

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

My parents did a great job of raising me and my brother. Very supportive parents.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings from - you know, I grew up in a big family, and I think it's a beautiful thing.

My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.

We had such a strange upbringing with such eccentric parents and so we were often put in situations where finding what was funny was a survival thing.

I couldn't really tell if it was a different childhood because I was used to it, it was kind of normal to me. The only time I remember it felt a bit odd was when I went to other people's houses and they were calling people 'dad.' I wouldn't get that. But my uncle, who also lived with me, was a father figure.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

My parents have always been very honest with me.

I never saw my parents kiss.

When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.