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" 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. "

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" '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. "

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

" I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not. "

" 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.' "

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" I don't make decisions based on money. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115. "

" I'd love to direct more. "

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" I love the Lower East Side. "

" The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. "

" In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role. "

" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "

" '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. "

" If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. "

" One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too. "

" 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. "

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

" I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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