Quotes from David Duchovny

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 don't make decisions based on money.

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

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.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

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 mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

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

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

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.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

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

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

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.

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.