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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave. Ari Graynor Read Quote
I require a lot of stimulation, and there’s so much I’ve learned being in front of the camera, I felt like I had more to give behind it. Ari Graynor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it’s something to be embraced and respected. Ari Graynor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
