Ari Graynor Quotes
I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.
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I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.
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We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
