Ari Graynor Quotes
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There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.
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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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While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a lot to explore in my career that could take me back to another time. A period piece would be an incredible game of dress-up, too.
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There's a lot of schlock out there.
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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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The truth is, there are so few female roles in movies. That's really limiting. As an actor, you wanna be able to sink your teeth into something. You don't want to just be the best friend. You don't want to just be the girlfriend.
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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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It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.
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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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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 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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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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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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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'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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I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.
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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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You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.
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I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.
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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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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 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 started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
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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.