Gillian Anderson Quotes

In England, I get offered films. I don't get offers in America. People don't know what to do with me in America. And I've disappeared.

To me a relationship is about loving another human being; their gender is irrelevant.

If irony were clean water, this would be a paradise.

Young women have more choices to make today about what to be. One of those choices is activist.

The United States ambassador’s proposal for a demilitarized zone between the nations had been met with derision in India, whose pundits pointed out that Pakistan could not even establish a de-terrorized zone within it own borders.

I try, in my life, to follow my heart. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying. A large aspect of life in Hollywood, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying. And I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself too much to too much of that.

I sometimes don't enjoy it at all, and sometimes it feels like... breath.

I don't think I'd be very good at what you'd call an ordinary job. I think I might be an artist, mixed media. And that is still something I'm interested in pursuing at some point, but I have this fear of taking my eye off the ball, and get distracted from that acting thing.

It’s a fair bargain. Some trust, some distrust, in the end win win.

Get out of the house. Find other human beings to communicate with. Read a book. Do yoga. Meditate. Be of service. That is one of the biggest single most things to get one out of oneself, is being of service to people who are less fortunate than ourselves.

I like women a lot and I champion them. I tell people when they are beautiful, I tell other actresses when I think their work is amazing... So I think women feel relatively comfortable in my presence. Also, because I'm not perfect, you know? I've got flabby thighs, I'm aging and I'm 5ft 3in. I talk about my failing in contemporary society in terms of gyms or food or whatever. I think there's a polite appreciation that I'm honest.

When I was younger I think I showed off and I fed off the attention. And to a certain degree that has been satiated in this job, just in doing what I do. I think it's enough that I don't need to then push it.

“That is irreligious.”
“As your comment is ill-informed,” Caitlin replied.

Either everything matters or nothing does.

You look just like that Mulder on X Factor.