It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?
I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
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.
It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.
When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.
Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.
I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
I'm turning into a stricter dad.
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
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.
I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.
I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
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.
I drive an electric car.
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
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.
'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 wouldn't succeed at musical theater.
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.
I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
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.'
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.
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 mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.
I don't make decisions based on money.
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.
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
I think Polanski's an amazing director.
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
