Ari Graynor Quotes
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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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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 a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
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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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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 love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
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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 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'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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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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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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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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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 started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
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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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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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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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I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!
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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 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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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 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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Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.