Gillian Anderson quote: "David (Duchovny) and I and (creator/producer) Chris Carter have been excited about and determined to do the next 'X Files' movie. I think it would be a huge amount of fun to get together in kind of a reunion situation and just make a really good, really scary film."

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

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

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in percept...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity,...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she i...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

We can only make ourselves the victim.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Success has nothing to do with happiness.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Be courageous, believe in yourself, and be the best woman you can be. I'm with you all the way.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series afte...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I am more spontaneous than my character...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we'...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essen...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to l...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and faci...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives yo...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Sometimes the best friendships turn into somehting more...an everlasting love.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to t...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Sometimes new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always th...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself,...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I try in my life to follow my heart in terms of what moves me and what is important to me. I know wh...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

David Duchovny and I and creator Chris Carter are determined to do another. Hopefully, by the time w...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

In England, it's much easier to flip between doing television and film. It doesn't ruin one's career...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Let's practice what we preach, and with the acceptance that we expect from others, let's stop being ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

The best relationships -- the ones that last -- are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendshi...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hea...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always f...
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 gene...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we&...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there a...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get v...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.
GILLIAN ANDERSON

I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow.
GILLIAN ZINSER

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-...
GILLIAN JACOBS

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
GILLIAN JACOBS

Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms...
GILLIAN DUCE

Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars.
GILLIAN DUCE

I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that wa...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villai...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seb...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but t...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Feeling the anguish does not make you weak, but conceding and hiding from it makes a coward.
GILLIAN DUCE

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, C...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
GILLIAN JACOBS

I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never qui...
GILLIAN FLYNN

My parents have always worried that I’d take Amy too personally — they always tell not to read t...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That’s how I’d stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristin...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Go didn't like grilled cheese; she was scooping peanut butter out of the jar onto saltines. When a c...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Para Amy, o amor era como drogas, álcool e pornografia: não havia limite. Cada exposiçao precisav...
GILLIAN FLYNN

A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It had turned me into a knee-jerk suckup to authority. Mom, Dad, teachers: Whatever makes your job e...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Wenn man meine Seele zeichnen könnte, wäre es irgendein wildes Gekritzel mit deutlich sichtbaren R...
GILLIAN FLYNN

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas tha...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich. We
GILLIAN FLYNN

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually.
GILLIAN FLYNN

... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile.
GILLIAN FLYNN

When people ask me that question that everyone asks: "What do you do?" I'd say, "I'm in customer ser...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I’m a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal e...
GILLIAN FLYNN

But she did invite me to her house, and women like that don’t invite over women like me unless the...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She called me Nerdy because I wore glasses and read books and ate yogurt on my lunch break. I'm not ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She defines and eliminates problems. She’s practical in an evil way.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Third choice is a single woman who has that open look. You know it : The same woman you stop to ask ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they'...
GILLIAN FLYNN

So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I mean, if I were a guy, looking to pay a girl to wank
me off, I wouldn’t walk in the room an...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
GILLIAN FLYNN

inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual frien...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are...
GILLIAN FLYNN

But I lack formal education. So I’m left with the feeling that I’m smarter than everyone around ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I DIDN’T STOP giving hand jobs because I wasn’t good at it. I stopped giving hand jobs because I...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I’ll...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapis...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.
GILLIAN FLYNN

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot
GILLIAN FLYNN

But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Money is wasted on the rich.
GILLIAN FLYNN

People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.
GILLIAN FLYNN

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
GILLIAN JACOBS

I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others percei...
GILLIAN ZINSER

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have kno...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.
GILLIAN JACOBS

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that&#...
GILLIAN FLYNN

When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

In the Arab and Israeli worlds' eyes, Jared Kushner is a perfectly plausible American arbiter of...
GILLIAN TURNER

Ivanka Trump's star is ascendant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and around the world, too.
GILLIAN TURNER

That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all...
GILLIAN FLYNN

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman ...
GILLIAN JACOBS

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he m...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
GILLIAN FLYNN

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and...
GILLIAN FLYNN

For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not abo...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarlies...
GILLIAN WELCH

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, wher...
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and tha...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Find yourself and you will find your freedom.
GILLIAN DUCE

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have g...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
GILLIAN FLYNN

He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figu...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
GILLIAN FLYNN

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a dr...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyon...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no bound...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood?...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.
GILLIAN JACOBS

It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very p...
GILLIAN APPS

People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.
GILLIAN APPS

I tried not to watch it, but we were shocked. I feel bad for the Americans, but we feel great for th...
GILLIAN APPS

We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we c...
GILLIAN APPS

I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christophe...
GILLIAN JACOBS

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn&...
GILLIAN CROSS

My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged m...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rh...
GILLIAN ZINSER

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.
GILLIAN JACOBS

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hai...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get ...
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am n...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'
GILLIAN JACOBS

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked ...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do pe...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inf...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or d...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.
GILLIAN JACOBS

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance t...
GILLIAN CROSS

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.
GILLIAN JACOBS

Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you per...
GILLIAN FLYNN

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
GILLIAN JACOBS

My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up li...
GILLIAN JACOBS

Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest re...
GILLIAN JACOBS

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and thin...
GILLIAN FLYNN

People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives w...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, a...
GILLIAN FLYNN

He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the fe...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Be the peace you would like to see in the world.
GILLIAN DUCE

I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horr...
GILLIAN JACOBS

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the wor...
GILLIAN FLYNN

The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my sin...
GILLIAN FLYNN

His name is synonymous with Southern California, making him a perfect fit to get the state of Califo...
GILLIAN ZUCKER

We wanted them to shoot jumpers and they made them. They were shooting 3s lights out.
MIKE GILLIAN

I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, s...
GILLIAN JACOBS

I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance p...
GILLIAN JACOBS

'Blue Monday' is a dance track with a hint of melancholy.
GILLIAN GILBERT

I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter....
GILLIAN FLYNN

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'S...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.
GILLIAN SHIELDS

The most profound one is you cannot make a report without a foundation. You cannot make an unjustifi...
GILLIAN BUTLER

She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morn...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
GILLIAN FLYNN

When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.
GILLIAN DUCE

When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel ...
GILLIAN GILBERT

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
GILLIAN FLYNN

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
GILLIAN FLYNN

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
GILLIAN JACOBS

I could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. T...
GILLIAN FLYNN

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
GILLIAN FLYNN

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people....
GILLIAN FLYNN

Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back o...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITE...
GILLIAN FLYNN

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
GILLIAN FLYNN

There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

We're kind of naive about that. We don't care about anybody else. We just try to do what we can do.
GILLIAN KIEFT

Light your life with purpose and all shadows will disappear.
GILLIAN DUCE

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.
GILLIAN FLYNN

David (Duchovny) and I and (creator/producer) Chris Carter have been excited about and determined to do the next 'X Files' movie. I think it would be a huge amount of fun to get together in kind of a reunion situation and just make a really good, really scary film.

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Gillian Anderson

David (Duchovny) and I and (creator/producer) Chris Carter have been excited about and determined to do the next 'X Files' movie. I think it would be a huge amount of fun to get together in kind of a reunion situation and just make a really good, really scary film.

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