Gillian Quotes

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.

If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.

I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.

The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

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

I like the Moth podcast a lot. I listen to that.

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day

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.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

The great rebalancing -- what does recovery mean today?

Why does everything always feel worse at night?

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

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.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

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

Vibration is always good. Sitting on top of the washing machine thats going.

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

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

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.