Quotes from David Duchovny


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


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.


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


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'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.


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.


'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.


I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.


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


I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.


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.


Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.


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 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.


The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.


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.


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'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.


I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.


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