Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I wait and see what scripts come my way and then try and make a decision within the choices that I'm offered. I see what turns up, and if it's something I'd really rather not do, or I think it's too similar to something I've just done, I'll wait and hope for something else.

I don't really think too far ahead, usually.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

I just go out and play.

I never really look too far ahead, to be honest.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

Whenever I've done anything where I feel like, 'Oh, it would be smart to do that,' it's always been a mistake. Whenever I do the 'Oh, it would be fun to do that,' it's always paid dividends.

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.

I've turned down a lot of roles. Some of them made stars out of the people. I have no regrets.

I have never planned things in life. I believe in living life or doing things to the moment.

I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

I'm used to the fact that the world views movie actors as personalities. I'm in the extremely fortunate position of making a living at something I'm passionate about. It's all about choices. By the nature of what I do, I make a choice. I invite them in.

It's fun to go out and play and not think about it.