David Duchovny Quotes

98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Morning

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Movies
  • Successful
  • Stars

• A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Talk

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
  • Woman
  • Happiness

• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Driving
  • London

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Human Body

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?

  

  Freddie Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• You’re having a crisis of faith. Just be there with it.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Faith
  • Crisis

• Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • World
  • American
  • Passion

• 98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.

  

  David Duchovny
  • People
  • World
  • Wish