Ari Graynor Quotes

I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with these amazing people all the time, and writing represented a new way to meet those people and to tell stories, at the same time, which I've always wanted to do, and to tell jokes. I love comedy, so writing was a way of getting these jokes that I had down on the page.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

I could never write. I would just be too lonely. What's great about acting is, it's so collaborative.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

Music is a dialogue.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

I do my best creating on stage.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

A play is a passion.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

Acting meant so much to me.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

I love the theatre and theatre people.

Theatre was always my passion.

Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.