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Ari Graynor

American Actress

Born: Apr 27, 1983

Comedy Me People Time World You

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Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you're playing, the stories you're telling, and the people you're working with. Ari Graynor

No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world. Ari Graynor

World About Arms End Up End Of The World Where Literally Movies

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York. Ari Graynor

Broadway Nerd New Come Bunch York Done New York Theater

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. Ari Graynor

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. Ari Graynor

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I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces. Ari Graynor

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I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship. Ari Graynor

Relationship People Think Other Some Point Most End Being Experienced

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

Dreams You Reality Goals Important Live Think Also Moment

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting. Ari Graynor

Love Me Older More More And More Onstage Gotten Being Which Interesting

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me. Ari Graynor

I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs! Ari Graynor

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On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible. Ari Graynor

Work You Hide Stage Nothing Organic Live Meditation Possible More Almost Like Go Behind Place Present

It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling. Ari Graynor

You Together People Feeling Stage Other Incredible One-Night Magical Something Audience Exists Experiencing Creating Moment Thing Night

I've started to get more stage fright the older I get. Ari Graynor

Stage Older More Fright Get Stage Fright Started

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

Life Love Buy Me World Changed Otherwise Cindy Saw Chunk Inside Vital More Poetic Outside Outside World Had Instead Force Although Feminine Been Blossoming Closely May Body Filled

I don't know what I would have done without acting. I officially fell into it around age 6 in a class play that reimagined 'The Ugly Duckling.' My joy in performing was so boundless, you would have thought I'd just won a Tony. Ari Graynor

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. Ari Graynor

Sad Funny Character Seriously Feelings Took Broadway Brooklyn More Scene Cast New Comedic Equal Became Parts Boy Donald Which Turn Realized Expressed Play Career Funnier

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected. Ari Graynor

Funny Think Respected Embraced About Something Being Warm Innately Jewish

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.' Ari Graynor

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia! Ari Graynor

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