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.

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

'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.

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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

Betty Gilpin

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.

Betty Gilpin