Betty Gilpin Quotes

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in show business. Never wanted anything else. I used to sneak in the costume room at my nursery school and smell the costumes.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

I have done a lot of theater.

I would love to do a musical. When I did 'Fame L.A.' for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.