David Duchovny Quotes
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On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
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People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
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One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
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I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.
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I still feel like I haven't grown up.
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I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
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I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
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In high school and college, I was an athlete.
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I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.
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Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
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When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
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I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
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I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
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Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.
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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.
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In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
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It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?
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I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.