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~ Gillian Anderson Quote
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
~ Gillian Anderson Quote
There's also Nick Park. I mean, Wallace and Gromit--I've been a fan for years and years, and actually I got kind of territorial when it started to become more mainstream, because it was like my little secret. (Laughs) I hated that everybody was finding out about it, but of course that's great for him.
~ Gillian Anderson Quote
From the yahoo chat, april 2000: Question: I would like to know what your dream role is--any character from any play or piece of literature that you could choose. I have many. Many and none. I love some of the contemporary female roles that have been written in films. I loved all the characters in American Beauty and Shakespeare in Love and Magnolia. Historically, I'd love to do Lady MacBeth. I love to do Hedda Gabler. And eventually, I'd love to do Blanche.
~ Gillian Anderson Quote
You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.
~ Gillian Anderson Quote
To my detriment sometimes. I can be very controlled - too controlled. It spills over into my life, and that's when it gets difficult.
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Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure.
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I loved being in London. But what I loved the most, I think, and what I learned from the most, was about the 'moment to moment' focus that takes place in live theater.
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During the first season, I didn't know who the hell I was, let alone who this character was. I feel stronger as a person in the world now. I remember, after going through the birthing process, feeling that no cut, no abrasions, no knock on the head will make me whine again.
~ Gillian Anderson Quote
I would like to know what your dream role is--any character from any play or piece of literature that you could choose.
~ Gillian Anderson Quote
What fascinates me most about Lily Bart is the journey that she goes on. No matter how many times I read the script, tears came to my eyes. There was just something about it that was so tragic. The way that Terence was able to transfer the novel to film, I think he did it very, very well. I honestly believe that our focus back then and today, is in the wrong place in this Western world. As long as we continue to put our focus [on material wealth] and not on the heart and in compassion for others and in the wealth of love and giving and understanding, we will continue to be faced with the same dilemmas that Lily is."
~ Gillian Anderson Quote
First of all, I swore I'd never move to Los Angeles, and once I did, I swore I'd never do television. It was only after being out of work for almost a year that I began going in [to auditions] on some stuff that I would pray that I wouldn't get because I didn't want to be involved in it.
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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.
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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 Quote
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 Quote