David Duchovny Quotes

I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

David Duchovny

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• Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • America
  • Alone

• For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Personality
  • Social
  • Farmers

• Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Great
  • Different
  • Down

• It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Individual

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Why
  • Know

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Never
  • Fight

• You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Game
  • Defeat

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  

  O. Henry
  • Live
  • Country
  • Citizenship

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Farmers

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Important
  • Think
  • Symbolism

• I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • May
  • American
  • Happy

• I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Doing

• For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Law
  • New York
  • Forward

• The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I'm moving forward and getting new fans at every show.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Moving

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  

  Gene Fowler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Heart

• If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

  

  Mike Crapo
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • About

• I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

  

  David Duchovny