Gillian Quotes

Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.

They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.

Writing time has to be created.

It's so great to work with people you know and love and trust, but also open up the world.

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

One person's dream is another's reality.

Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.

Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.

When I think of the energy I wasted hating you...

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

To live with regret is to deny one's life of living.

How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights.

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

Open up allowing the temporal and eternal self to dance deeper into the conversation.

There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.

If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today

One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.

You don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you?

We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.

Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it.

They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man, ' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we?

There were problems with having a reputation like his. Folks either wanted your hide or wanted you to save theirs. There was never any happy, indifferent middle ground.

No one said parenting was easy, but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with.

Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life.

I know, I know, I'm being a girl.

All dreams are realities waiting for us to believe in them.

Having to admit that you are depressed makes one feel less than. Broken. Yes, that's what it is. Broken.

Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?

How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.

Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.