Gillian Quotes

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

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

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

I was a good liar as a child.

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

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

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

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

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.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

I think with true passion you can do so much more than you think is possible.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.

We can only make ourselves the victim.

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

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

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

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

Success has nothing to do with happiness.

People come in and out of our lives to teach us. And we teach other people. It's part of the process. They come in and they go out. Some stay for longer than others.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

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.

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

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.

I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.

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

Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

There are no really new stories anymore.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.