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In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.
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Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!
Ari Graynor
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Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.
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Women care about their friends.
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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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I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
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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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There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.
Ari Graynor
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I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
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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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I've always sort of felt like I was from another time. The '70s is more my vibe. The clothes fit me better.
Ari Graynor -
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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I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
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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.
Ari Graynor
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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've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!
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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.
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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.'
Ari Graynor -
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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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.
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.
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I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor