Ari Graynor

At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that. ”

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. ”

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other. ”

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.' ”

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. ”

The real heart of comedy is uncovering a truth about yourself or about the world that you didn't see. ”