Ari Graynor Quotes

I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

I think everyone's pretty much the same underneath. The collective unconscious is a real thing. There's only a few emotions, and we all have them. There's, like, seven emotions. So personal is universal. Everyone experiences confusion, joy and pain, just in different forms.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.

I love feelings that are universal, things that tie every single person on this earth together. I think we all battle between what we know is right and what we feel is right every single day, and as much as that can be difficult it's absolutely human.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

I feel my situation is no different from anybody else's experiences.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.