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In Retrospect, I Think That I've Been Given Quite A Few Scripts Over The Years That Had Dark Elements To Them But Most Of Them Took Place In The Countryside With A Haunted House. I Think I've Probably Had That Script About Six To 10 Times Over The Past Few Years. Or It Was Something To Do With The Supernatural.

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Gillian Anderson

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In Retrospect, I Think That I've Been Given Quite A Few Scripts Over The Years That Had Dark Elements To Them But Most Of Them Took Place In The Countryside With A Haunted House. I Think I've Probably Had That Script About Six To 10 Times Over The Past Few Years. Or It Was Something To Do With The Supernatural.

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In Retrospect, I Think That I've Been Given Quite A Few Scripts Over The Years That Had Dark Elements To Them But Most Of Them Took Place In The Countryside With A Haunted House. I Think I've Probably Had That Script About Six To 10 Times Over The Past Few Years. Or It Was Something To Do With The Supernatural.

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I've Seen Productions Where It Feels Like The Actors Are Just Tired And Want To Go Home. That Is One Of The Challenges Doing Theater - Especially A Long Production - How To Keep It Alive For Yourself And The Audience.

I Believe People Are In Our Lives For A Reason. We're Here To Learn From Each Other.

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.

In My Case, I Was Born To Parents Who Were Very Young, And I Don't Think They Were Entirely Ready To Have A Child. My Dad Was Going To College And Working Two Or Three Jobs At The Same Time, And My Mum Was Working And Going To School.

I Will Only Take Something Or Agree To Do Something That I Feel Like I Understand, And Inherent In Understanding Is Empathy.

I'm A Massive Fan Of Sunshine. Oh My God, I Love That Film.

Sometimes, I Genuinely Enjoy Having Conversations With Journalists; Enjoying The Few Moments Of Intimacy With A Stranger Is Fascinating To Me. But Once In A While That Backfires And You're Suddenly Reading Something That Has A Bent On It That You Didn't Feel Was In The Least Bit A Part Of The Conversation That You Thought You Were Having. Then You Get Overly Protective And Say Very Little And Then You Come Out Of The Hole Again.

Mads Is Such A Talented Actor - It's Almost Like He Wears His Emotions On His Sleeve, But Not All The Time - When He Decides That He Needs To, He Has Such Access To His Emotional Life And It Is Just Really Incredible. He Can Do Everything With Just His Eyes.

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When The Show's Not Around Any More, It's Going To Be Hard Not To Have Her In My Life.

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I'm Sure With A Production That's Not Particularly Well Received Or Mediocrely Received, It Must Be Incredibly Challenging To Get Up And Keep Doing It.

Self-esteem Should Have Nothing To Do With What You Look Like – If You Exude Genuine Confidence, People Will Be Swept Into It. You Have To Be Able To Hold Yourself.

My Default Is Self-destruction, And Anything On Top Of That Is A Bloody Lot Of Work.

Sometimes, I Genuinely Enjoy Having Conversations With Journalists; Enjoying The Few Moments Of Intimacy With A Stranger Is Fascinating To Me. But Once In A While That Backfires And You're Suddenly Reading Something That Has A Bent On It That You Didn't Feel Was In The Least Bit A Part Of The Conversation That You Thought You Were Having. Then You Get Overly Protective And Say Very Little And Then You Come Out Of The Hole Again.

My Whole Belief System Is That Our Paths Are Drawn For Us. I Believe In Reincarnation. I Believe We're Here To Learn And Grow. We Choose How We Come Into This Life Based On What It Is We Have To Learn. Some People Have Harder Lessons Than Others.

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I Always Felt I Wasn't Completely American And I Wasn't Completely British: There Was A Feeling Of Having My Feet In Both Places.

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Sometimes I Struggle To Watch Stuff That I've Done And Sometimes I Don't, And I'm Sure That My Judgment Is Based On Whether I Feel Like I Accomplished What I Set Out To Accomplish.

I Tend To Be Very Skeptical And Judgmental. I'm Not Really A Conspiracy Theorist, But I'm More Likely To Believe The People That Speak About A Conspiracy, Or Are Convinced Of Conspiracies In The Government, Than The People Who Have 100 Percent Faith In The People Who Are Running America.

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I Simply Cannot Fathom The Horrors Of Being Enslaved, And The Thought That Children Are Ripped Apart From Their Families And Used Year In And Out For Sex And Hard Labor Under The Threat Of Violence And Death Breaks My Heart.

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Layers Are Not Difficult For Me. You Have The Luxury Of Takes, So If You Feel Like, Say, You Did Not Take In The Fact That Your Aunt Is Across The Way In One Take, You Do It Again And Try To Add That Piece.

People Always Ask If I Was Really Voted Most Bizarre Girl In High School. But That One's Actually True. I Was Living In Michigan In A Very Conservative Town And Had A Nose-ring And A Shaved Head And Did Kind Of Strange Things.

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.

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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.

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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.

I Believe People Are In Our Lives For A Reason. We're Here To Learn From Each Other.

Every Now And Then We'd Meet Up And Reminisce About The Characters. At The Beginning, Shortly After We Started Shooting, Someone Sent Me Some Clips Put Together On Youtube. It Was The First Time I'd Seen Something Like That. "the Intimate Moments Of Mulder And Scully."

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Directing Was A Transformative Experience For Me, One That I Really Enjoyed.

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People Have Been Willing To Accept That The Government Is Lying To Us, But They Are Now 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 Been People's Closet Belief System, And Now It's Coming Out Of The Closet.

I've Got Huge Tubs Full Of Stuff That I Can Sell On Ebay. If There Are People Out There That Are Interested, I Want Them To Come My Way And Buy My Jackets And Hats And Scripts That Are Signed By Everybody.

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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.

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