I can goof around with other people right up to when we shoot.

I often showed up ungroomed. It didn`t occur to me. Then I`d end up at a premiere and I`d think, what are you doing? I remember being at a restaurant with a famous British actress. I knew there were paparazzi outside. My intention was to make a beeline for the car. But then, as we were walking outside, she applied lipstick. I thought, what is she doing? But her public image is very glamorous. It`s a different mindset.

I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

I think we`re tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she`s now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

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 have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

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.

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

It`s so funny, because right now I`m very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I`m probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

I am more spontaneous than my character.

It`s easier to be myself here. I can go out wearing whatever the hell I want, no matter how ridiculous it looks. If I do that in America, people look at me like I`m insane. There are aspects of the British press which are incredibly intrusive, but then you`ll go to a premiere and someone will ask permission to take a photo, and when you say, "That`s enough", they`ll back off. In the States, you go to a restaurant and there are people lined up outside with 8x10s of you. Or they just follow you with a video camera. I had someone deliberately rear-end my car a few years ago in L.A., and there was a video camera: they were videoing my reaction. Luckily, I was in a good mood.

I don`t usually like seeing things I`m in. I get really depressed afterward.

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

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.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

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

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.

I think we were all coming in saying, you know, this will probably last for twelve episodes and then we`ll all go home and start making movies.

When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity . . . and mediocrity scares the f*ck out of me!

You know, it`s a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we`re drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I`m a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That`s a great feeling.

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

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we`re here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.

[interview in "Movieline" magazine, Dec. 1998] Fame is complicated and definitely overrated. There are perks to it that are unfathomable. But the other aspect is there`s little to no privacy at all - being anywhere at any time and knowing that somebody you cannot see is probably taking a picture of you, which has happened hundreds of times. I look around and cannot see anyone and a couple of weeks later I see a photo of me looking around.

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 didn`t pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don`t like showing their passports. It`s becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn`t mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There`s so much fear in America and control.

[about her role as Agent Scully in "The X Files" (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character . . .

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don`t generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I`m starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

On The X-Files we shoot out of sequence every day, and sometimes we`re shooting three different episodes at one time, so I`m used to that.

I don`t show my face [in L.A.] very much, and so that makes it a bit more complicated for me in terms of work. They [producers] need to see you in the press, and in their face, in meetings, auditions, whatever. And as far as they`re concerned, I haven`t provided enough of an example of the kind of things that I can do, as an actor, for them to justify hiring me without me sitting down in front of them or having me dance around.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

My tendency is towards the opposite of health and taking care of myself. My natural tendency is destructive. In order not to act on that, I have to be careful. The minute I don`t feel like that, if I let down my guard, I`m in trouble.

I was a good liar as a child.

To my detriment sometimes. I can be very controlled - too controlled. It spills over into my life, and that`s when it gets difficult.

I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder`s relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.

People generally treat me like I`m very intelligent and really, I`m much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

After I did nine years of a television series, I didn`t want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.