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

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" I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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 know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "

" I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love the Lower East Side. "

" 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 don't make decisions based on money. "

" I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. "

" 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. "

" Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor. "

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