Ari Graynor Quotes

After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.

It would be quite unusual for me to get deep into a project and then shitcan it. One of the advantages of having done this for a while is that I have a better sense than I used to of when something is or isn't working. Until I developed that sense, this was a pretty dicey career for me, both in terms of paying the rent, and emotional wear and tear.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.