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

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

Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."

I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.