I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. David Duchovny More Quotes by David Duchovny More Quotes From David Duchovny 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 guysomewhere-elsedoe I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35. David Duchovny marriedgayage I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI. David Duchovny fbi-agentsdollarsthinking I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him. David Duchovny doctorssongcharacter Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird. David Duchovny pearshurtfeelings Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. David Duchovny spaceshipsaliensanswers There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now. David Duchovny playcharacterbelieve 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 actorsplaytelevision I don't know about the baby, but I will be interested to see, like anyone who's a fan of the show [how it's resolved]," he said, and then joked, "They'll have to resolve me while I'm not there, so I hope they don't say, 'Oh yeah, Mulder's gone, what an asshole. He had a baby with me, he kissed me and then he left.' David Duchovny fansgonebaby My whole life, Ive 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 nextmissingjobs I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore. David Duchovny 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 gamesmeanpeople At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again. David Duchovny virginiaseniorwriting 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. David Duchovny playkidsyears Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression. David Duchovny hurtfeelingspeople Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. David Duchovny privacysacrificeloss I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God. David Duchovny characterbookblood I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way. David Duchovny readingbeachbook In high school and college, I was an athlete. David Duchovny athletecollegeschool As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself. David Duchovny funcharactermean
