Ari Graynor Quotes
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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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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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I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
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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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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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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'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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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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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 already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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'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 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'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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Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.
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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.
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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.