Ari Graynor

I would love to be doing more voice-over work. It's such a fun and free playground to take risks, play around, and get sort of ridiculous. ”

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love. ”

As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do. ”

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. ”

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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.' ”

All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better. ”

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. ”