American - Actress | April 27, 1983 -
I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.
Ari Graynor
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When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
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A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.
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There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
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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.
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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.
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It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'
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All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better.
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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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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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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.
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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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