I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.

In England, I get offered films. I don't get offers in America. People don't know what to do with me in America. And I've disappeared.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

Having been Dana Scully|Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.