"I'd like to be a giant enabler"
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“I’d like to be a giant enabler” lands like a wink in the middle of a culture that’s obsessed with calling people out. Coming from Daryl Hannah, an actress whose public image has often hovered between Hollywood glam and activist seriousness, the line reads as both playful provocation and quiet manifesto. She’s taking a word that usually smells like dysfunction - the “enabler” who cosigns bad behavior - and inflating it until it flips into something aspirational.
The intent feels less confessional than corrective: what if enabling isn’t about propping up someone’s worst impulses, but amplifying their best ones? The “giant” matters. It’s not modest, self-protective support; it’s oversized, unapologetic permission-giving. In an industry that thrives on gatekeeping and scarcity - who gets cast, who gets heard, who gets taken seriously - positioning yourself as an enabler is a subtle rejection of the zero-sum mindset. She’s signaling a desire to be the person who opens doors, funds the weird project, validates the risky choice, keeps the momentum alive.
There’s also a strategic innocence to the phrasing, a kind of Hannah-esque softness that disarms critique. She doesn’t say “power broker” or “patron” or “mentor.” She chooses a messy, morally loaded term and makes it warm. The subtext: the world has plenty of critics and curators; what it needs is someone willing to say yes, loudly, and mean it. In 2026’s attention economy, that’s not naivete. It’s a form of influence.
The intent feels less confessional than corrective: what if enabling isn’t about propping up someone’s worst impulses, but amplifying their best ones? The “giant” matters. It’s not modest, self-protective support; it’s oversized, unapologetic permission-giving. In an industry that thrives on gatekeeping and scarcity - who gets cast, who gets heard, who gets taken seriously - positioning yourself as an enabler is a subtle rejection of the zero-sum mindset. She’s signaling a desire to be the person who opens doors, funds the weird project, validates the risky choice, keeps the momentum alive.
There’s also a strategic innocence to the phrasing, a kind of Hannah-esque softness that disarms critique. She doesn’t say “power broker” or “patron” or “mentor.” She chooses a messy, morally loaded term and makes it warm. The subtext: the world has plenty of critics and curators; what it needs is someone willing to say yes, loudly, and mean it. In 2026’s attention economy, that’s not naivete. It’s a form of influence.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hannah, Daryl. (2026, January 17). I'd like to be a giant enabler. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-like-to-be-a-giant-enabler-44985/
Chicago Style
Hannah, Daryl. "I'd like to be a giant enabler." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-like-to-be-a-giant-enabler-44985/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'd like to be a giant enabler." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/id-like-to-be-a-giant-enabler-44985/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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