Betty Gilpin

“I find myself on Yelp typing in 'the best 'blank' all the time: best cheese, best ice cream, best pizza.”

“In previous roles, I have thought of my body as 'Betty's body,' and I try not to eat too many dinner rolls - please don't fire me! I'll make crazy choices from the neck up, but from the neck down, it's just me trying to suck it in. And in 'GLOW,' my whole body was required to do a function and not just to look as good as possible in a costume.”

“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.”

“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 have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.”

“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.”

“There's nothing fake about flipping over and landing on your back.”

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

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

“I do Bar Method - it's, like, you're there for an hour, and you get everything, and you're done.”

“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.”

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

“When you're an actress - or just a woman - a lot of the exercise classes that are offered are so sort of male gaze-skewed. It's all working out for the beach and not for function at all.”

“Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.”

“I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally... I was always in newborn-deer mode.”

“Both of my parents are actors, so I grew up backstage with them. I would see some of their shows 30, 40, 50 times. I would have it all memorized. I loved it.”

“I think that it's our job to sort of band together and say, 'OK, what are the ways the male gaze has seeped into your brain and is affecting the way you treat yourself? Let's work together to eliminate that.'”

“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 often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.”