Gillian Anderson
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Reading
We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.Collection: Girl
I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.Collection: Marine
Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going.Collection: Machines
When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.Collection: Character
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.Collection: Intelligent
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.Collection: Children
People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.Collection: Girl
I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.Collection: Empathy
Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational training and mentorship, as well. It's an issue of gender equality, which is fortunately a hot topic right now, but we need to keep at it and not rest on our laurels.Collection: Girl
Every now and then we'd meet up and reminisce about the characters. At the beginning, shortly after we started shooting, someone sent me some clips put together on youtube. It was the first time I'd seen something like that. "The intimate moments of Mulder and Scully."Collection: Character
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.Collection: Thinking
I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much of it that I'll regret in the future.Collection: Letting Go
I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.Collection: Ebay
It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Cameras
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.Collection: Fingers
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.Collection: Eye
Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.Collection: Men
It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.Collection: Taken
[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.Collection: Character
Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.Collection: Years
I tend to be very skeptical and judgmental. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, but I'm more likely to believe the people that speak about a conspiracy, or are convinced of conspiracies in the government, than the people who have 100 percent faith in the people who are running America.Collection: Running
I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.Collection: Challenges
Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.Collection: Taken
Sometimes I struggle to watch stuff that I've done and sometimes I don't, and I'm sure that my judgment is based on whether I feel like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.Collection: Struggle
People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they 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.Collection: Lying
I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater - especially a long production - how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.Collection: Home
Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.Collection: Long
Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.Collection: Enjoyed
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.Collection: Mom
I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.Collection: Doors
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.Collection: Feet
It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.Collection: Girl
What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.Collection: Atheist
I'm a massive fan of Sunshine. Oh my God, I love that film.Collection: Sunshine
Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."Collection: Other Cultures
I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.Collection: Sex
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day.Collection: Reading