Ari Graynor Quotes
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Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you're playing, the stories you're telling, and the people you're working with.
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The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.
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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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I've always sort of felt like I was from another time. The '70s is more my vibe. The clothes fit me better.
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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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I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
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I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
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I would love to be doing more voice-over work. It's such a fun and free playground to take risks, play around, and get sort of ridiculous.
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I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.
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It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.
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I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like, two years but were my best friends, and we had a really fun time. And then I lived alone or with a boyfriend. I've never really had a bad roommate situation.
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Sometimes you can get stuck doing the same kind of thing over and over again, and then there's a certain moment in your life when you say, 'Wait, there's all this other stuff in me and all this other life.'
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I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
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Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.
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At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which was equal parts funny and sad. I realized that the more seriously I expressed my character's feelings, the funnier the scene became.
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I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.
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When I was kid, I couldn't wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman - beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside... even though I was only 4.
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Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
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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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When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn't want it showing up on the bill.
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I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.
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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 had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident.
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I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.