David Duchovny Quotes

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

You don't know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.

I think there are some people who have talent flying out of their fingers and other actors who hone their craft. I am an actor who found their way. I bettered myself throughout my career, and I am proud of that fact.

Whether you're playing sports, starting a business or anything else in life, you need to identify your talents. Your responsibility is to find what you do better than anyone else. Once you identify what that is, you need to put yourself in the best position to succeed.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

I was always, you know, a decent player growing up. And yes, I was born with a certain amount of so-called 'natural ability.' But I also worked and sacrificed a lot to try to maximize what I was born with - which I think is important to point out.

You are born with the talent; then you work with it. You develop the right mentality.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I can always be better. I work hard at singing and being a better recording artist.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.