I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater - especially a long production - how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.

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

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity