Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gillian Anderson
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: August 9
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Chicago
Illinois
Gillian Leigh Anderson
Would
Think
Tormented
Thinking
Vital
Like
View
Views
Creative
True
Cannot

More quotes by Gillian Anderson

Image
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
Image
I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.
Gillian Anderson
Image
It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.
Gillian Anderson
Image
Success has nothing to do with happiness.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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
Image
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
Image
We can only make ourselves the victim.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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
Image
There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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.
Gillian Anderson
Image
We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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.
Gillian Anderson
Image
I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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.
Gillian Anderson
Image
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
Image
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.
Gillian Anderson