Scully Quotes

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

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

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

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

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.

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 fascinating to me, the shows that I`ve always loved the best, Hill Street Blues" (1981), "Wiseguy," "Twin Peaks" (1990) have always been shows that did have accumulative knowledge. One of the reasons why "The X Files" (1993) started to leave me cold was that after five years, I just started yelling at Scully, `You`re an idiot. It`s a monster,` and I couldn`t take it anymore. I need people to grow, I need them to change, I need them to learn and explore, you know, and die and do all of the things that people do in real life. And so (on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)) we`re very, very strict about making sure that things track, that they`re presented in the right way. Because, ultimately -- and this is one of the things that I did find out after we had aired, the soap opera, the characters, the interaction between them is really what people respond to more than anything else. And although we came out of it as a sort of monster-of-the-week format, it was clear that the interaction was the thing that people were latching onto. So we were happy to sort of go with that and really play it up and really see where these characters were going to go." (NPR Fresh Air, 8 November 2002)