286 Quotes by David Duchovny


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    I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there’s no life on Mars, there’s no God, nothing’s trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

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    The real truth about a lot of life’s mysteries can be explained by science but people don’t want to get in bed with science because it’s cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    Feelings come and go, unless you don’t feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

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    It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.

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