David Duchovny Quotes

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.

When I'm in the moment, I'm in the moment.

I love just being in the moment, and the most present I feel in my work is with theatre.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

Presence is more than just being there.

A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

I like to stay in the moment.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

I try to stay in the moment.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.