"You'd have a very hard time finding anyone less like Dana Scully than me"

"It's tough because Scully has done everything. She's cried, screamed, laughed…and to express those emotions on camera without a modicum of Scullyness is a challenge…It's not so much that I fall into doing Scully, but it's more that I am so adamant about not doing anything Scully-like that I have to keep a pretty keen awareness at all times."

"The thinking man's crumpet? It's better than being the lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose"

"He's an octopus. Without him, we'll become plankton drifting in someone else's sea"

"I love Vancouver. I think it's a beautiful city. But it is not and has never felt like home. Los Angeles feels like home"

"If anyone asks me one more time whether Mulder and Scully are going to get together, I'll brain them!"

"I'm basically a goofball who is, like, a zillion times less intelligent than Scully is. She's also a lot taller than I am"

"I'm not a religious pesron, more a spiritual one"

"I think the first three weeks of shooting that pilot were the most difficult of my life. That and starting shooting straight after having a baby"

"I'd hate to be having sex while going down in a plane crash. That just, you know…it wouldn't do it for me!"

"Scully is strong, she's independent and she's very smart. It's a very appealing woman's role"

-Hotshots: The X Files and Other Eerie TV

"I feel like, whatever you need to go through in life in order to get to an honest place, a place where you feel like you can be honest and okay in the world, then that's what you need to go through"

"Sometimes it can be very hard to say these lines and sound like I know what I am talking about"

"I don't regret anything that's happened in my life except not paying enough attention at school, and I can make that up at some point"

"I haven't the foggiest idea where it is, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere"