Ari Graynor Quotes
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When you get into comparisons in any way of, 'we want it to be like this' or 'we don't want it to be like this,' it takes away from the authenticity of what you're trying to say and what you're trying to make.
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I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.
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I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.
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You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it.
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It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'
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As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.
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It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.
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I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.
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I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.
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I don't know what I would have done without acting. I officially fell into it around age 6 in a class play that reimagined 'The Ugly Duckling.' My joy in performing was so boundless, you would have thought I'd just won a Tony.
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The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.
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I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.
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Usually, when I'm at a festival with a movie that I'm in, I'm in and out in 24 hours.
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My deepest fear about doing TV, especially about doing a network comedy, was what if it felt too surface-y? What if it felt too jokey?
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My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.
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When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
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I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.
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Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.
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As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.
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For years, I said I didn't want to do television. It was just a hard 'no.' I didn't want to read anything. It didn't matter what it was - it was just 'no.'
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I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be flattering, but it could get old fast.
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For all creative people, that's sort of everyone's journey. You feel something inside, and it takes a while to figure out what that looks like and what your voice is.
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I've had curly hair for years, and I never wore it curly. I didn't know what to do with it.
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I feel like I'm sort of afraid to study too much because I feel like I work as I go, but I want to study the classics and also the technical aspects of things. I'm always looking to understand more.