Ari Graynor Quotes

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated.

There are always people who are desperate to put you in your one camp and never let you leave. The idea that you could be interested in the Yazidi community and also in lipstick blows people's minds. It's a really short-sighted, Stone Age attitude; it's boring, actually.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

You're always going to have typecasting, especially with TV.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

There's more to a person than whether or not they like dogs.

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.