When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.