David Duchovny Quotes (30 Quotes)

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

I fought to have it in, and then I saw it, and then I -- my ass didn't look as good as I wanted it to, and I fought to have it cut out, ... Now, I'm of the opinion that only gratuitous nudity is good nudity.

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

It's the nature of the business. It changes sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse and can be completely different from what you imagined.

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. They want you to tell about what you saw.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

Everyone was like We're doing a movie, it's costing a lot of money, you're getting paid more money, what are you going to do different Are you going to make it better ... The size of the screen doesn't make a big difference for the character. The character remains the same.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

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.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

I would never sing in public. Because I've got a horrible voice. It just sounds bad. I mean, Tea claims to like to hear me sing, and I think it's because I enjoy it so much. We sing in the car ... And she air-drums. This is why we have tinted windows. A lot of people think it's because we don't want people to see us and follow us home, but it's really because we're making fools of ourselves.

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

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.

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.

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.

I don't care why people love me, just as long as they love me. And I don't even care that they do so much. Is it better to have money or not to have money Better to have love or not Both money and love may be bad for the soul or bad for the art. I'm on a show that a lot of people like to watch. Does that make me better off

We really have to reconsider what it is that a public person gives up. Why does a public person give up all his or her rights to privacy

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.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

I feel nostalgia for the show in a way, ... I'd always wanted it to be a movie franchise. I never thought that when I felt the show ending or when I wanted to leave the show that it was the end of the show. I always thought that it was a natural for the screen. I'm happy to go back and continue it that way.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.