Betty Gilpin

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

“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.”

“There's not a ton of roles out there for the insecure, loud Britney Spears type.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.”

“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.”

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

“I'm like Elaine Stritch everywhere.”

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

“I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.”

“The smell of a perm is this special kind of Chernobyl-grave soup smell.”

“I fill my business emails with smiley faces and question marks so that I don't sound too severe.”

“I'm usually told to do a take where I do less with my face.”