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

Self-Expression

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" 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'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though. "

" 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? "

" '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 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. "

" It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist? "

" 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. "

" One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm turning into a stricter dad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "

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

" I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. "

" I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "

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" Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. "

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

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

" 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. "