Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I drive an electric car. "
David Duchovny
Drive
Car
Electric
Related Quotes:
" I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. "
David Duchovny
Phone
E-Mail
Me
" I wouldn't succeed at musical theater. "
David Duchovny
Theater
Musical Theater
Succeed
" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "
David Duchovny
Better
Anything
Anybody
" I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook. "
David Duchovny
Never
Ever
Eat
" I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me. "
David Duchovny
World
Work
Three
" You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. "
David Duchovny
Fashion
Speak
You
" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
David Duchovny
Born
Daughter
Moment
" I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.' "
David Duchovny
Think
Shark
More
" Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will. "
David Duchovny
Know
Never
Will
" I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. "
David Duchovny
Sit
Discipline
Understand
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Think
People
Envy
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Best
College
Lying
" Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth. "
David Duchovny
Meditation
Day
Help
" I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. "
David Duchovny
Kind
Film
Life
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Food
Happy
Love
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Worry
Think
Sickness
" In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. "
David Duchovny
More
Much
Before
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Character
Learning
Place
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Questions
Appreciate
Me
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Love
Nature
Ocean
" I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. "
David Duchovny
Thought
Collaboration
Time
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Think
Know
Live
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Focus
Future
Past
" When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. "
David Duchovny
Kids
Over
World
" A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them. "
David Duchovny
Attached
Difficult
Because
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Child
Show
Situation
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Work Hard
Talent
Work
" I'm not really a gamer. "
David Duchovny
Really
Gamer
" I'd love to direct more. "
David Duchovny
Love
Direct
More
" I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "
David Duchovny
Trying
Best
Compliment