Gillian Anderson famous quotes

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Believe #People #I Believe

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Helping Others #Volunteer #Feelings

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Best Relationship #Lasts #Wells

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Positive #Perseverance #Mind

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Yoga #Mean #Meditation

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Intelligent #Perspective #People

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Space #Laughing #Ears

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Daughter #Children #Feelings

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Perception #Judgemental #Fit

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Lying #Believe #Overcoming

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Change #Reading #Good Day

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Giving #Foxes #Firsts

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Life Lesson #Believe #People

Success has nothing to do with happiness.
-- Gillian Anderson

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Regret #Men #People

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Real #Stopping #Quiet

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Years #Focus #Cameras

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Running #Trying #Accepting

I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Lying #Overcoming #Hurdle

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Regret #Geography #I Regret

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Strong #Believe #Thinking

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.
-- Gillian Anderson

#School #Attention #Pay

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day
-- Gillian Anderson

#Reading #Good Day

Mads is such a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time - when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Eye #Emotional #Needs

You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Night #Just Friends #One Day

Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Reading #Littles #Sometimes

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Acting #Actors #Fit

When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Cameras #Television #Exhausted

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Feet #Feelings #British

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Thinking #Views #Creative

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.
-- Gillian Anderson

If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Mom #Opportunity #People

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Fear #Moving #Mean

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
-- Gillian Anderson

#Death #Dying #Alive

People come in and out of our lives to teach us. And we teach other people. It's part of the process. They come in and they go out. Some stay for longer than others.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Friendship #People #Process

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Self Esteem #People #Looks

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity
-- Gillian Anderson

#Thinking #Mediocrity #Think Of Me

You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Thinking #Drawing #People

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Aunt #Luxury #Trying

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Thinking #Tunes #Different

I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Independent #Thinking #Stronger

I am more spontaneous than my character.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Character #Spontaneity #Spontaneous

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Hard Life #Shows

I was a good liar as a child.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Children #Liars #Lying

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Relationship #Real #Thinking

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Self #Destruction #Default

Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Machines #Sitting #Vibrations

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Fingers #Situation #Deals

We can only make ourselves the victim.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Victim

Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Long #Roles #Prove

By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Children #Moving #Opportunity

People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but (are now) more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Lying #Government #People

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Differences #Listening #Heard

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Thinking #Scare #Mediocrity

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Reality #Pages #Scripts

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Jobs #Children #Dad