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Gillian Anderson

43 quotesActress · Born Aug 9, 1968 · United Kingdom · Female

Gillian Leigh Anderson, OBE (born August 9, 1968), is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the long-running and widely popular series The X-Files, ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies' film The House of Mirth (2000), and DSI Stella Gibson on the BBC crime drama television series The Fall. Among other honours, Anderson has won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. After beginning her career on stage, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the American sci-fi drama series The X-Files. Her film work includes the dramas The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), Shadow Dancer (2012), Viceroy's House (2017) and two X-Files films: The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). Other notable television credits include: portraying Lady Dedlock in the successful BBC production of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart, Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (2011), and Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier on Hannibal. Anderson is the co-writer of The EarthEnd Saga novel trilogy and the self-help guide book WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere. Aside from film and TV, Anderson has taken on the stage and received both awards and critical acclaim. Her stage work includes Absent Friends (1991) – for which she won a Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer, A Doll's House (2009) – that earned her a Laurence Olivier Award nomination, and a portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014, 2016) – for which she won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress and received her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actres

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From “The X-Files: "The Rain King"”

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a…

Love You Haven't Found Yet Relationships Friendships

From “The Rain King”

It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is…

X-Files Friendship Relationships

From “Aubrey”

Children aren't born liking sunflower seeds. Environments shape them; behavior patterns are taught.

X-Files Children Growing Up

From “Young at Heart”

I have never met anyone so passionate and dedicated to a belief as you. It’s so intense that sometimes it’s blinding.

intense dedicated Passionate

The truth is out there. But so are lies.

X-Files Truth Lies

From “Beyond the Sea”

I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe.

X-Files Afraid Fear believing

From “Born Again”

Looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.

X-Files explanations Mystery

From “Ascension”

Whatever you're feeling, you did the right thing.

X-Files Feelings Guilt

From “Revelations”

I'm afraid that God is speaking and no one is listening.

X-Files God Religion

From “Grotesque”

Maybe you're just seeing what you wanted to see.

X-Files Imagination Expectations

From “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”

These are tricks that the mind plays. They are ingrained cliches from a thousand different horror films. When we hear a sound, we get a chill. We see a shadow and we allow ourselves to imagine something that an otherwise rational person would discount out of hand. The whole idea of a benevolent…

X-Files Ghosts spirits

From “All things”

What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to.

one truth

What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to.

one truth

Time passes in moments... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which…

X-Files Choices Decisions

Time passes in moments... moments which, rushing past define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end. How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which…

X-Files Choices Decisions

From “US Magazine”

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

People Reason Learning Living

From “My Struggle”

I have seen this before. You’re on fire, believing that you’re onto some truth, that you can save the world.

Messiah Complex

Mulder… listen to me. As your friend and as a physician, you are on dangerous ground here.

Warning dangerous ground

From “Founder's Mutation”

I’m old-school, Mulder. Pre-Google.

Old School Google

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