Ari Graynor Quotes
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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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I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident.
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I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
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I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.
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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 was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.
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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.
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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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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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As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.
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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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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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I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.
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People remember the last thing you did.
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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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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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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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I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.
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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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You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.
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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 prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.
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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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Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.