David Duchovny Quotes
The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.
Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.
If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.
There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.
I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.
People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.
I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.
You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours, what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.
Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.
It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.
Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.
I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.
