Quotes from David Duchovny

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.

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.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

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.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

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 think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

I drive an electric car.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

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.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

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.