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" Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident. "
Ari Graynor
Feel
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" 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. "
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" It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue. "
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" 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. "
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" Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary. "
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" There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world. "
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" You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it. "
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" Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in theater. I think it's such a useful tool as a person and as an actor to go back and forth between those two mediums. "
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" 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. "
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" I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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You
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" I've started to get more stage fright the older I get. "
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" When you're having a good time working on something, and you all like each other, it shows in ways that you don't even realize. "
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" 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. "
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" People remember the last thing you did. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality. "
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" I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer. "
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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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