I don’t believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. — David Duchovny

It’s rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it’s the only way it has a chance to survive it. — David Duchovny

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation. — Hank Moody

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. — David Duchovny

Don’t tell me what to feel. All my fucking life, people have been telling me I do things wrong. I’m always the fucking asshole. I look around and I see everybody else is infinitely more fucked up than I am. — Hank Moody

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. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

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

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

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it’s done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work. — David Duchovny

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it’s all faking. — David Duchovny

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it’s like catching lightning in a bottle. It’s the best part of what we do. — David Duchovny

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there’s nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck. — David Duchovny

The person that I want to have everything to do with, wants nothing to do with me. — Hank Moody

Get it in while you can. It’ll all be gone soon enough. — Hank Moody

How can you be so fucking beautiful and so fucking wrong? — Hank Moody

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. — David Duchovny