David Duchovny Quotes

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

I'll be honest: I'm not really the best at dancing.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think 'Well gee, let's not mess this up.' But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

My stories are never quite good enough.

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.