Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.

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.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

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

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.

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