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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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Women care about their friends.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
Ari Graynor
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I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor
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It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
Ari Graynor
