David Duchovny Quotes
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I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
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Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
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If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
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I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.
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I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'
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I feel like I came to acting late in a way.
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My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
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Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.
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At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.
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I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
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It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.
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Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.
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I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.
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I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.
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You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.
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I think Polanski's an amazing director.
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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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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
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I'm not really a gamer.
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Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.
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If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.
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I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.