David Duchovny Quotes

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

David Duchovny

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mom
  • Doing
  • Seattle

• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Thought

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'

  

  Ed Weeks
  • First
  • Wedding
  • Ever

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Faith
  • Fighting

• In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

  

  Karen Kain
  • World
  • Story
  • Ballet

• When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • College
  • Day
  • Ambition

• If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

  

  Louis Navellier
  • March

• You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Truth
  • Night

• It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Proud

• An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

  

  Martin Kippenberger

• I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Work
  • Writing