“Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence -...” — Betty Gilpin Quote

“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 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.”

“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.'”

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

“Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.”

“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 meet so many business women who shy away from the limelight or hesitate to put themselves forward for promotion, despite the fact they are brilliant at their jobs.”

“I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.”

“What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.”

“There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.”

“I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.”

“Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.”