David Duchovny Quotes
I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
Quotes to Explore
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Our customers are worldwide themselves - the Middle East, the Far East, Europe.
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Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.
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Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
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I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.
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As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.
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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
