Gillian Anderson

"I sometimes don't enjoy it at all, and sometimes it feels like... breath."

"Young women have more choices to make today about what to be. One of those choices is activist."

"At the beginning the pay disparity was massive. But that happens all the time in Hollywood. It's, 'Do this for me, I'll get you a job.' All the stuff in the papers today about people in entertainment …"

"I don't think I'd be very good at what you'd call an ordinary job. I think I might be an artist, mixed media. And that is still something I'm interested in pursuing at some point, but I have this fear…"

"I try, in my life, to follow my heart. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying. A large aspect of life in Hollywood, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying. And …"

"People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's bee…"

"Another miraculous result of playing Scully has been all the incredible young women I have been blessed to meet along the way--women who have shared that they have received strength from Scully, that …"

"I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives."