Ari Graynor Quotes
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I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
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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'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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The real heart of comedy is uncovering a truth about yourself or about the world that you didn't see.
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I have the personality where, although my ego can be healthy, sometimes I also feel like people won't remember me, or they won't know who I am.
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When you're having a good time working on something, and you all like each other, it shows in ways that you don't even realize.
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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'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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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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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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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'm such a theater geek. Most of my friends are in this community, and it's really important for me to keep doing it. It takes the ego out of acting, whereas movies tend to involve it.
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I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.
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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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As an actor, there's no faking it.
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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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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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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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The worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.
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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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You know what no one tells you about driving a truck? You are driving a truck. There are only side mirrors, and it does not handle like a Prius.