David Duchovny Quotes

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

I've laid my friends bare.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

A man is entitled to a few secrets.

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

Things can’t be kept secret forever.

I'm not comfortable doing nudity. That's something quite personal.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

I don't try to make things mysterious on purpose; I just try to make them interesting.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It's good when you exist only on screen. I don't want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.

I have an ex that's just all up in my business every day.