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“It’s great. You know, it was great then, too. It’s like a sibling relationship. And I never had siblings. I had brothers and sisters that started when I was 13. So I was out of the house and didn’t have that experience.

“But it was always this natural love/hate — wait, no, ‘hate’ is too big of a word - but there was always something. You get what I mean? It was just a natural relationship over a period of time.

“I think now we’ve grown up. We’re older. And I think we are more appreciative of the relationship, period, and the unique experience that we had together - and that we have an opportunity to continue that and foster it. We’ve always loved each other, and we’re always going to be at battle sometimes.”

Gillian Anderson, IWTB set interviews, 2008

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“The fact of the matter is that I grew up during the course of this show. I started when I was 24 and am ending at almost 34 - that’s almost a third of my life. I was so young and naive and impressionable and didn’t have a clue about the business or anything at that time.

“To grow up and to make mistakes along the way and to experience my life while trying to be somebody else 18 hours a day has been an interesting task. And I also did it very publicly.”

Gillian Anderson, New York Times, 2002

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“It’s a long time, it’s a long of work, you’re in this crucible, it becomes this juggernaut… and we become like, hugely famous people, and we all change a little bit, go a little crazy, think that we’re special, and then we come back down to earth and we know that we’re not…

“And it’s just all these things that happen. We see the worst of each other. Fame brings out the worst in people, as does success, in a weird way. Until it doesn’t, until you learn how to deal with it, until you learn what it’s all about. And I think now we do. And now that we all do, we just really appreciate one another for having gone through that experience. And not only that, but I appreciate her talent much more than I ever did.”

- DD, Popcorn with Peter Travers, 2008

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How was it working with the cast members?

“I mean, David - the guy that I was with most of the time - and I have had a very long, complicated relationship. But we’ve grown very fond of each other, in our dotage, and um, he’s a lovely man. Everybody’s lovely.”

GA, Sarajevo Film Fest, August 2009

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“This week, they’re starting some kind of road towards doing [XF2]. Gillian and I both want to be in it now. We’re happy to do it. At this point all of the kind of fatigue and anxiety that we had towards the end of a nine-year run is gone.”

He jokes, “We’ve forgotten why we hate one another and can only remember why we love one another and we’re very happy to go back.”

DD, April 2007

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In my twenties and thirties I just kept thinking, “I am really pulling the wool over people’s eyes. When am I going to be found out? I’m not good enough.” All that self-deprecating stuff. I remember a cover shoot for Jane magazine, feeling such low self-esteem, so much self-criticism that I wasn’t able to get out of myself and join in.

Last year I came across that photoshoot and saw this really pretty young girl with short hair who was toned and thin and I know I was thinking I was too fat at the time, tormenting myself. And yet there were these lovely pictures. I thought, “how much time have I wasted in my life beating myself up about how I look?”

Gillian Anderson, Telegraph, May 2009

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“We all wanted to do it — but I think for me, what’s nice, is, I left the show a year before the show ended, and I always felt somewhat responsible for leaving them in the lurch, in a way. You know, Gillian and Chris, people that I love, and that I grew up with as an actor, and that were so instrumental in helping me have whatever I have in my life today.

“And so to be able to do that and be there and to be that guy again, and to work with Chris and Gillian and show that, you know, I wasn’t full of it when I said [that I wanted to do more movies] and that I do love the show and the characters, that was kind of redemptive for me.”

DD, Kevin & Bean, July 2008

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“I came in when I was 24, and I’m going to be 30 this year. Those are formidable years in a person’s life. A lot has transpired over a seemingly short period of time. And I think that as a result of having to basically deal with everything in the moment — because of the constraints of work — I have been forced into this Petri dish of learning where I have had to move forward constantly. Because there’s no room to move backwards. No room whatsoever.”

GA, Vancouver Sun, April 1998

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