Quotes from Gretchen Mol

It's not like I have a master plan or anything.

I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.

I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.