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" I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face. "

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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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" 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. "

" When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense! "

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" 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.' "

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

" With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel? "

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" Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater. "

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