Ari Graynor Quotes
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A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.
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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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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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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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Women care about their friends.
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I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.
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I think it's important to have goals and to have dreams, but you also have to live in the moment of what the reality is.
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I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.
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I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
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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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More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.
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No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.
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While I'm Jewish, the Hasidic world is still foreign to me. But I do understand some of the ideas of tradition and family and faith of our shared culture.
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I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
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Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!
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At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.
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I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.
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The Bowery Hotel is always a great place to meet people for drinks. It's so cozy in there, especially in the late fall and winter.
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Numb3rs' was a wonderful gift because I had not worked in six months. It was so fun to be on that set doing these crazy things.
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My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.
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It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
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I was playing a lot of bigger, sort-of-comedic characters in slightly heightened realities, and it had been so fun and fulfilling for a long time. But it got to a point where I just felt like I didn't have that in me anymore.
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I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.