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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.
Ari Graynor -
I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.
Ari Graynor
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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 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.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
By 12, my body had changed, although instead of blossoming into Cindy Mancini from 'Can't Buy Me Love,' I more closely resembled Chunk from 'The Goonies.' My inside world may have been filled with a poetic and vital feminine life force, but the outside world saw and told me otherwise.
Ari Graynor -
You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.
Ari Graynor
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People remember the last thing you did.
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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.
Ari Graynor -
It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
Ari Graynor -
I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.
Ari Graynor -
I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.
Ari Graynor -
There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.
Ari Graynor
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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.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
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.
Ari Graynor -
Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.
Ari Graynor