Gillian Anderson Quotes

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

I like change and I like contrast.

Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.

I didn't change the world.

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.

They look right. And you move left.

That was then. This is now.

Sarvam'... has no gloss that you associate with my earlier work.

When there are changes there will always be people who like it and people who don't.

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time. Such things are too much. You can salt your heart, or kill your heart, or you can choose between the two realities. There is much pain here. Some people think you can have your cake and eat it. The cake goes mouldy and they choke on what's left. Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.