Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

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

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

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

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.