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Ari Graynor
American
Actress
Born:
Apr 27
,
1983
Comedy
Me
People
Time
World
You
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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.
Ari Graynor
You
Side
Tells
About
Mirrors
Only
No-One
Driving
Truck
Like
Know
Does
Handle
I think 'Nick and Norah' was a huge deal for me. It was my first foray into the studio world, and that character was such a gift.
Ari Graynor
Character
Me
World
Gift
First
Think
Studio
Deal
Norah
Huge
Nick
Henry Winkler is the most lovable man. He is like everybody's favorite grandfather.
Ari Graynor
Man
Everybody
Favorite
He
Like
Most
Lovable
Grandfather
Henry
Women care about their friends.
Ari Graynor
Women
Care
About
Friends
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
Kid
Hung
Immediately
Out
Because
Dial
Up
Curiosity
Did
Want
Bill
Showing
Showing Up
Numbers
I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.
Ari Graynor
Photographer
Inspired
Been
Interested
Really
I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.
Ari Graynor
Time
Myself
Old
Long
Long Time
Since
Calling
Been
Years
Just
Actor
I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.
Ari Graynor
Women
Waters
Dramatic
Admired
Able
Through
Comedic
Sort
Always
Were
Just
Who
Navigate
I don't have to fear that if I do more comedy I'm not going to get to do everything I want. I'll get to do my 'Yentl.'
Ari Graynor
Fear
Comedy
Everything
More
Get
Going
Want
My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.
Ari Graynor
Good
School
Trouble
Worst
Would
Good Student
Student
Never
Got
Get
Nightmare
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.
Ari Graynor
Experience
School
College
City
All-American
College Experience
Study
Go
Want
Wanted
Theater
Your
Here
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
Me
Ego
Important
Community
Out
Geek
Tend
Takes
Involve
Most
Doing
Friends
Whereas
Theater
Movies
Really
Acting
Keep
I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
Ari Graynor
Love
Food
People
Equate
Cook
While I'm Jewish, the Hasidic world is still foreign to me. But I do understand some of the ideas of tradition and family and faith of our shared culture.
Ari Graynor
Faith
Family
Me
Culture
World
Our
Some
Shared
Ideas
Understand
Foreign
Still
Tradition
While
Jewish
When you get into comparisons in any way of, 'we want it to be like this' or 'we don't want it to be like this,' it takes away from the authenticity of what you're trying to say and what you're trying to make.
Ari Graynor
You
Way
Say
Takes
Like
Make
Authenticity
Get
Trying
Any
Want
Comparisons
Away
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.
Ari Graynor
Alone
Time
Best
People
College
Single
Situation
Bad
Given
Only
Only Child
Never
Had
Like
Boyfriend
Were
Years
Friends
Child
Then
Really
Fun
Fun Time
Lived
Two
I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.
Ari Graynor
Me
You
Old
Babies
Baby
Everywhere
Kid
Kind
Would
Beach
Know
Always
Fake
Doll
Years
Diaper
Loved
Four
Bring
The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.
Ari Graynor
Life
Time
Pilot
My Life
Stupid
Signed
Willing
Horribly
Tempting
Only
Written
Almost
Sitcoms
The Only Thing
While
Realized
Really
Season
Away
Thing
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
Great
Young
Babies
Babysitting
Bit
Kids
Entertained
Talk
Always
Did
Wanted
Loved
Little
Prefer
Little Bit
The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.
Ari Graynor
Life
You
Matter
Language
Else
Be Different
Something
Something Else
Shakespeare
Emotional
Emotional Life
Doing
Same
Different
Whether
Lives
I've had curly hair for years, and I never wore it curly. I didn't know what to do with it.
Ari Graynor
Hair
Never
Had
Know
Years
Curly
Wore
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
Dinner
Parents
Bat
Married
High
Through
Had
Hippy
Traditional
Celebrated
Rabbi
Holidays
Little
Who
Program
I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.
Ari Graynor
Think
Ways
Some
Brave
Confident
Nearly
People remember the last thing you did.
Ari Graynor
You
People
Remember
Did
Thing
Last
I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.
Ari Graynor
Mom
Holding
Baby
Babysitter
Everything
Kind
TV
Eating
More
Kitchen
Putting
Liked
Sort
Bed
While
Then
Watching
Playing
Watching Tv
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
Work
Best
You
Learning
People
Comedy
Other
Those
Out
Kind
Drew
Drew Barrymore
David
Jonah
Anna
Know
Hill
Gordon
Yeah
Goal
Michael
Green
Hang
Just
Working
Each
Keep
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