Ari Graynor Quotes
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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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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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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'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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As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and more daunting. And I think that's also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at 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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Not one person has ever sent me a drink because I was Caroline in 'Nick and Norah.' People reference it; people say really nice things about it, but I was sure I would be getting more free drinks.
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Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.
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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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I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.
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You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.
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I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.
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There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.
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I went through a little hippy dippy program at Brandeis and was bat mizvahed by the rabbi who married my parents. We celebrated the High Holidays and had the traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner.
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If I'm gonna stay in this world of comedy, then it has to be a really special character to me in a really smart piece of material.
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There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
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I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.