A biography for Betty Gilpinhasn’t been written yet.
“Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.”
“The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.”
“If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.”
“My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.”
“'GLOW' is the first time I feel like I've been able to have a theatrical experience on the small screen: to really be able to marry the two. And I love it.”
“With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel?”
“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!”
“'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.”
“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.”
“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!”
“I wasn't allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was - I guess I cheated a little bit and started when I was in college, but I graduated! Barely.”
“I think I did four 'Law & Order' episodes. I did two 'Criminal Intent,' one mothership, and one 'SVU.'”
“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 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.”
“Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.”
“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.”
“My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.”
“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.'”
“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.”