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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My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.
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It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
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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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I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.
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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 worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.
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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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People remember the last thing you did.
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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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The real heart of comedy is uncovering a truth about yourself or about the world that you didn't see.
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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 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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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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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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I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.
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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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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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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'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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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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As an actor, there's no faking it.
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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.