Molly Gordon

“I had a little too much energy as a child.”

“I spent a lot of time doing my first few jobs in New York, just doing workshops of musicals. That's the best part of living in New York: when you're an out-of-work actor, that's the job that you have.”

“Working on 'The Bear' felt like coming home to this space that I've always longed to return to.”

“I've struggled with work-life balance and, 'Oh, can I only be in pain to produce good work?'”

“I'm a polka dot girl, yeah!”

“I love to be comfortable and I'm obsessed with dresses!”

“I think when we're just given the same type of thing over and over again, with the same types of people, no one wants to go out and see them. But if we continue to tell different kinds of stories, and stories that people can see in their own life, hopefully, people will come out.”

“Every show we love got made by accident.”

“I read 'Booksmart' a couple of years ago, so I always knew that it was this wonderful project.”

“You don't have to grow up too fast.”

“I had a very realistic view of what it's like to be in Hollywood, which is that you have beautiful success, but then years of absolutely nothing where you can't pay off your house.”

“That was my dream. I wanted to be on 'SNL' and just get to make a fool out of myself.”

“An extreme perk of this job is I get to wear amazing creations of people, so I feel really lucky and they help me take more risks with my own fashion, too.”

“A movie is made up of your compromises and your mistakes, and they end up being beautiful, and to not freak out about those things. And I feel like once we got Zen with that, we really found our groove.”

“I think that TV, film, and theatre feed each other in such a beautiful way.”

“I'm lucky that all the guys on 'Animal Kingdom' are so lovely and kind and super goofy too.”

“I'm very lucky that the children's theater in Los Angeles that I grew up with was me and Ben Platt and Kathryn Gallagher and Beanie Feldstein. I grew up with all these people so I get to ask them what they do and how they stayed healthy and all those things. I'm very lucky that I got to watch my friends do it so I get to learn from them.”

“I'm hyperrealistic to a fault.”

“I feel like I'm a private creative person or something. And actually, working on 'Shiva Baby' and watching girls my age be so unapologetically themselves and ambitious and knowing that I wanted that too but I was doing it more privately, was a really big shift for me.”

“Some of the things that happened at theater camp, you would tell somebody and they would never believe. But if you're a theater person, you know, 'Oh, I've had the teacher who had us all pretend we're in a tsunami, or use your parents' divorce.'”