Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

Growing up, I never saw images of trans people succeeding.

When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of.

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

Acting is how I'll be able to change how Latinos are viewed in media and change how little girls see and talk about themselves.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

I am not a spokesperson for the trans community, I am not. The media kind of projects me as being the spokesperson, but from my standpoint, I am not. I am a spokesperson for my story, and that's all I can tell.

I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

I live life what I consider to be normal.

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.

I like to be in 'The Walking Dead,' and I like to play video games and just hang out with my friends and try to be as normal as possible, so going to college would be another really cool, normal experience in my life.

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.

I've been pretending to be normal for so much of my life.

There are times where I'm like, 'I wish I can do this' or 'I wish I can be normal like this,' but with my life, I try to keep it normal.

These past six years, people have seen me as a woman, not a transsexual. People in the gym, people I train with, it's been great, it's been awesome. I'm just a woman to them. I don't want that to go away. It's unfortunate that it has to.

I wrote 'Redefining Realness' because not enough of our stories are being told, and I believe we need stories that reflect us so we don't feel so isolated in our apparent 'difference.'

What I'm really excited for is to see the evolution of trans characters and see more diverse stories be told, so that every time we're on screen, we're not really playing the part of educator and having to explain the experience to the audience, because it will have already been normalized.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.