One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.