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never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
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.
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.
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.
Graduate
students are petrified. As an undergraduate you say what's on your mind,
you rap with the teacher. But in graduate school you pronounce yourself
a professional -- this is what you do for a living. You're petrified to
be wrong.
I
always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed
in.
I
do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very
solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if
they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that,
because they cannot live without each other.
I
don't socialise with Gillian just because we're working together all the
time. You can't describe our relationship as 'like' or 'dislike'. We've
been thrown together, two people who don't know each other and forced to
spend more time together than married people do.
I
don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
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.
I
lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
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.
I'm
not a religious person. If I get close to religion it's in these moments
when people faint and shudder and have orgasms with religious fervor - I
don't think they're kidding. And I'm envious.
If
the greatest artwork in life is the creation of who you are, then it's
good to apprentice to a good therapist.
If
you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at
once. You need somebody who listens.
It's
not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my
responsibility.
My
entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you
have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the
focus -- there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it
sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
My
favorite bill is the one hundred.
No
sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking
there's more than that between us amuses me. With Gillian, we've created
the illusion of romance.
Now
that I'm married and thinking of having a family, my greatest fear is
being unable to defend my loved ones.
On
the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the
right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids.
We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They
live on their instincts.
One
of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the
other people within you.
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.
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.
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.
The
great benefit of monogamy is that you get to trust the person you're
with and she gets to trust you. And so much comes out of that. So
whether or not men and women were meant to be monogamous -- and we can
debate all the theories until we die -- I know I gain something great
from it.
The
key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead,
we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we
cry.
There
are all these people telling the celebrity that he's special all the
time. That's what people want, right?
We
really have to reconsider what it is that a public person gives up. Why
does a public person give up all his or her rights to privacy?
When
you have a child, it really frees your emotions, but it's so
overwhelming you feel like going, "Ow, don't make me feel so much.
I'm going to cry if you keep laughing." That kind of thing..
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.
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.
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.
I'm
half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
Privacy
is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted
to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn
interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
I've
always been overly concerned about what people think which has resulted
in a lot of inner turmoil. I try not to give a damn but inside I'm a
huge ball of worry.
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
frightened by the possibilities of my own lack of talent.
I
think I'm nice enough to look at, but I think people make a big deal
about my appearance. I think it was like hypnosis, like all of the
sudden everybody's been trained: 'OK, now cluck like a chicken!' 'OK,
now say David Duchovny's handsome!' I mean, I was a normal-looking kid,
and whoever you are and whatever you look like, there are always things
you want to change. I just remember that I wished I was blond. And I
wished that my nose were smaller and my lips were smaller and my eyes
were bigger... you know, everything.
It's
pretty workaday, people don't seem to realize: You get up, you take a
shower, you read the paper, you play Mulder.
I
get tired of people asking if I believe in what's presented on the show.
They don't ask the guys on 'E.R.' if they believe in euthanasia.
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. |
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