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.

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships – the ones that last – are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

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.

Sometimes I struggle to watch stuff that I’ve done and sometimes I don’t, and I’m sure that my judgment is based on whether I feel like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.

We can’t heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.

Every now and then we’d meet up and reminisce about the characters. At the beginning, shortly after we started shooting, someone sent me some clips put together on youtube. It was the first time I’d seen something like that. “The intimate moments of Mulder and Scully.”

I wouldn’t say I’m normal. But I’m relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f – out of me.

People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one’s actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.

When I’m inside the character, I feel like I’m a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it’s me, I find that disappointing.

I’m actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.