Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. "
David Duchovny
Shelter
Spend
Money
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Want
Cry
Key
" I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. "
David Duchovny
Off
Write
My Life
" I'd love to direct more. "
David Duchovny
Love
Direct
More
" 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
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Lightning
Work
Mistakes
" 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. "
David Duchovny
You
Information
Kind
" 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. "
David Duchovny
World
You
People
" I don't like watching people work if they're making art. "
David Duchovny
Work
People
Like
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Stage
Television
Film
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Think
You
Time
" I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. "
David Duchovny
Patience
Skill
Think
" If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. "
David Duchovny
Going
Christ
Need
" I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower. "
David Duchovny
Outdoor
Enjoy
Shower
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Great
Job
Life
" 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.' "
David Duchovny
Love
Better
Good
" I don't make decisions based on money. "
David Duchovny
Money
Based
Make
" Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. "
David Duchovny
Work
Game
Games
" 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
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Relationship
Fame
Fear
" Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating. "
David Duchovny
Kind
Cheating
Celebrity
" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
David Duchovny
Born
Daughter
Moment
" I'm not really a gamer. "
David Duchovny
Really
Gamer
" I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch. "
David Duchovny
Ways
Up
Everything
" One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with. "
David Duchovny
Play
Great
You
" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. 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. "
David Duchovny
Late
Television
Living
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Treat
Children
Food
" I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing. "
David Duchovny
May
Sing
Learning
" Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. "
David Duchovny
Most
Expect
Me
" I wouldn't succeed at musical theater. "
David Duchovny
Theater
Musical Theater
Succeed
" I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. "
David Duchovny
Think
Whatever
Choose