Top 40 Betty Gilpin Quotes

When we did ‘Endgame,’ we were all hunched over and making the craziest sounds. Then I graduated and went right into auditioning for ‘Gossip Girl’ and things like that, where, as an actress, you’re required to act from the neck up and, from the neck down. It’s a presentation of your birthday-suit self.

Wrestling introduced me to the idea that my body has a purpose besides trying to look five years younger for the first time.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it’s the stakes of how you feel inside!

With theater, the time commitment and the demands on your body, your personal life, and your wallet are crazy. It’s four months of feeling like you’re running a marathon and getting paid in hugs.

There’s nothing fake about flipping over and landing on your back.

My original perception of wrestling was not a very positive one. I didn’t understand it at all, and I thought it was kind of silly and ridiculous. But as I got to know it, it was sort of like how people used to talk about musicals, to me, when I was younger.

You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it’s exactly the opposite.

I went to the Women’s March in D.C. on January 21, and I, looking around, was thinking, Wow, something that bonds all of us is that we’ve been silent-screaming in our bathrooms, alone, in between sarcastic lunches.

When I read what ‘GLOW’ was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn’t even go to theater camp.

I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.

I think I did four ‘Law & Order’ episodes. I did two ‘Criminal Intent,’ one mothership, and one ‘SVU.’

‘GLOW’ was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an actor – and that felt amazing.

I won’t name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.

My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts… so I was sort of raised to be a clown.

When I first thought about wrestling, I thought about it as this foreign thing that I would have so much trouble accessing, and then, day one of researching it, I was like, ‘Oh, I know what this is! This is theater. This is playing pretend.’ It was really easy to connect to.

Wrestling was the first time I thought, ‘My leg is the thing that functions in this way to do this move, to get from A to B.’ Instead of, like, ‘My body’s purpose is to suck it in so the male showrunner thinks it’s attractive.’

I grew up in a lot of stage managers’ booths, memorizing the lines. I’m sure I was the most annoying child in existence.

Female friendship… I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

To get health insurance, you give up your dignity – that’s what I thought being an actor was. So when ‘GLOW’ came along, I was shaking reading it because I hadn’t really allowed myself to dream of a show like this.

I kept feeling like there were no parts for girl who want to play to the mezzanine.

I’m usually told to do a take where I do less with my face.

I find myself on Yelp typing in ‘the best ‘blank’ all the time: best cheese, best ice cream, best pizza.

I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie’s body.

I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at ‘Gossip Girl’ auditions, thinking, ‘Wow, I really wasted my money.’

The more power you can find in yourself and your own surety and identity is actually the best output that you could give to your friends in relationships.

Being an actor, I’ve thought about being in the male gaze.

Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.

I ate cucumbers and saltines – not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.

Growing up, I was a self-loathing Igor who carried the queen’s books. My job was to be the sarcastic sherpa, quietly providing the farce and adoration, then becoming part of the wall when cued.

I’ve done plays where you get into the run and can go to auditions during the day, or can have lunch with someone, and then you go to half-hour and show up.

I do Bar Method – it’s, like, you’re there for an hour, and you get everything, and you’re done.

I was scared to film ‘GLOW’ for many reasons. As an actor, as a wrestler. It was just a very scary and intimidating experience.

I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective Bluestone asking what time you were at the station.

I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other’s faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.

Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.

Sometimes, daily life doesn’t match the high stakes that you feel! And I feel like that is wrestling. Wrestling actually makes sense to me.

Every time I get catcalled, I fantasize about being able to do a wrestling move on someone.

Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence – but a very powerful presence – and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, ‘I want to emulate that.’

I try to cheat up. If I’m going to have something that’s ‘off the plan,’ then I want it to be the best piece of bread or the most amazing ice cream.