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

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" For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious. "

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

" I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch. "

" I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets. "

" What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm turning into a stricter dad. "

" 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 think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. "

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

" My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring. "

" I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. "

" I think Polanski's an amazing director. "

" When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. "

" I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film. "

" 98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against. "

" 'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in. "

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

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

" In high school and college, I was an athlete. "

" 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. "