David Duchovny Quotes

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

Who loseth his freedom, he loseth all.

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

Dying people often become childish.

Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

The very being and existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage

In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

It was really tough being in jail. It doesn't get much lower. You're in a filthy room. The food is terrible, and you're surrounded by people who have done all types of crazy crimes. You have nothing that belongs to you, not even your own underwear. It's just terrible.

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.

If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried about - if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride.

The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.