21 Quotes by Gayle Rankin

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

There's a misconception about wrestling, that it's really fake, but it's real, and you can really get hurt, even though a lot of it is performative.

I could legitimately put someone in a headlock, for sure.

I was a really girly girl when I was younger. I only wore pink until I was at least 12. Think of me in culottes with a Bagpuss T-shirt and frizzy hair. Oh, and I was a fat child. It was bad news.

Naivete is the real reason I applied to Juilliard. I wanted to study drama and not musical theater because I have a hard time dancing. I only applied there.

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

I've always wanted to perform and act my whole life and to understand people more, so that's the only reason I've got to work with the people I've worked with.

I just feel lucky to have had my training at Juilliard. Even though it is a 'classical' training programme, they also prepare you for all mediums. They don't teach specific techniques or subscribe to a specific school of thought about acting.

I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.