Ari Graynor Quotes

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

I'm just a working actor.

I have never been a star; I'm just an old character bag.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

I'm just a character actor.

I speak for myself... I am here to tell stories. I'm here to be an actor and not a superstar. If, in the process, that ends up happening, great. But that's not my endgoal.

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

I'm not up there with Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts. I don't sell tickets. I've known that for a long time.

I just had this moment where I was sitting at my desk, and I realized what it was that I'd been wanting to do since I was a little girl - and that was act.

I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.

I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.