Quotes from David Duchovny

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

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.

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.

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

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.

I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

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

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

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.

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

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

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.

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.