“I gotta say, at the beginning when I first started to realise that… when I started to read my fan mail and started realising there were a lot of young women who um… who looked up to me and saw me as a role model.. .it was a huge weight on me at first. I didn’t know how to comprehend it. I didn’t know what to do with the information. I didn’t know how I was ever going to live up to what people thought that I was. But I think that, in the end, what has happened is that it has actually helped me… to keep my focus and to really make specific what is important in my life. And to make it very clear about what that is. And it has helped me to grow as a person and to mature as a woman and, in a sense, it’s almost like we’ve been working together in a strange kind of silent way. Because I think that, if it were not for feeling like there was some small duty that I had in some way to stay sane and to stay on a healthy plan, that I might have… um, not done that. So I think you all help me as much as I help you.” - Gillian Anderson.
(Source: emma-wicks, via esketh-deactivated20120402)
