There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
I didn’t pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.
I’m sure with a production that’s not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.
When I think of normality I think of mediocrity.
Sometimes having a big amount of time is a gift, because by the time you’re at the end of the run you feel like you’ve figured it out finally or discovered everything you can about the character. Sometimes that’s not the case.
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.
I’ve seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater – especially a long production – how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.
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.
I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.
I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
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.
We can only make ourselves the victim.
By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.
Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.
Mads is such a talented actor – it’s almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time – when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes.
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.
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day.
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.
Thinking man’s crumpet? Well, it’s more flattering than being a lobotomised man’s crumpet, I suppose...