57 Quotes by Betty Gilpin

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.'

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    You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

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    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.

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