Long Quote by Gillian Anderson Download Open image “Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.” — Gillian Anderson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Long time Prove Prove myself Roles Scully Time
It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
They'll have to bring in Mulder an' Scully, because there ain't no CSI on the planet that'll ever be able to explain this. — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders. — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea! — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
For anyone who's a fan of the X-files show - I mean, I have the ultimate role. I got to deal with Mulder, I… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I don't wish to be seen on television all the time. Instead, I prefer a five-minute appearance in a rare and challenging role for… — Manini Mishra Copy Share Image
One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well. — Aleksa Palladino Copy Share Image
I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I was arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering into the high school. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
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… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I loved being in London. But what I loved the most, I think, and what I learned from the most, was about the 'moment… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
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… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Let's practice what we preach, and with the acceptance that we expect from others, let's stop being so damn judgmental and crucifying everyone who… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I go through periods when I feel confident and then I'm apt to be impulsive. But then I go through other times where I lose that confidence and I just feel like a total hypocrite. For a lot of my life I've had this feeling of something being wrong. It's hard to describe, but it's like having a sense of… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share
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… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking… — Pico Iyer Copy Share
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share