#gillianagraphics

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“I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it. When I'm in a quiet place myself then that's when I'm drawn to people who are the same. But when I'm in my usual busy state, it can scare me. I run away from it.”

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Gillian Anderson attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Gillian Anderson attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 25, 2001 at Morton’s restaurant in West Hollywood.

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Gillian Anderson attends the British Airways party in Carlson restaurant on March 5, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.

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Gillian Anderson attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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the x-files: fight the future — production stills

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“Oh, there are so many things that I’m bad at. I’m bad at anything that has to do with IT. I’m bad at remembering anything from my actual life other than lines for, say, a play. Just so many things.”

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"I try in my life to follow my heart," she says softly, "not just in relationships but in terms of what moves me and what is important to me in my life. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying, and a large aspect of life in Hollywood I find incredibly soul-decaying. I choose -- albeit with some frustration to other people in my life -- not to expose myself too much to that. I now live in a country I absolutely love, in a city I am awakened by and educated by on an almost daily basis. I [also] spend a lot of time in Africa. I get to do amazing theatre. I get to live this incredible life."

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"I never really had close friends. It forced me to rely on myself and become a stronger person." — Gillian Anderson, US Magazine, May 1997

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Gillian Anderson and Alice Eve are photographed at the Charles Finch and Chanel's Pre-BAFTA on February 7, 2015 in London, England.

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Gillian Anderson attends the London Film and Comic Con in 2012