David Duchovny quotes
- From the movie: The X Files
- From the movie: The X Files
“You saved me. As difficult and as frustrating as it's been sometimes, your goddamned strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over. You kept me honest. You made me a whole person. I owe you everything and you owe me nothing. I don't know if I wanna do this alone. I don't even know if I can. And if I quit now, they win.”
- La trovi in Relationships in Hollywood
“What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.”
- From the movie: Evolution
- From the movie: Playing God
- From the movie: Return to Me
“- Bob Rueland: Would you go out with me?
- Grace Briggs: Yes?
- Bob Rueland: Is that a question?
- Grace Briggs: No, it's a yes. Yes.
- Bob Rueland: Tomorrow night?
- Grace Briggs: Yes.
- Bob Rueland: Eight o'clock?
- Grace Briggs: Yes.
- Bob Rueland: Pick you up here?
- Grace Briggs: Yes.
- Bob Rueland: My, you're a very difficult woman.” - From the movie: Playing God
“You better pray to whatever god you believe in that your character knows what the hell it's doing. I thought I was a man of character. Good character. Then I made a mistake. A bad one that changed everything. That's why I found myself walking into a lousy L.A. bar to buy some Phenolcitrate, synthetic heroin, my personal favorite.”
- From the movie: The X Files
“- Agent Fox Mulder: I think they went left.
- Agent Dana Scully: I don't know why, I think they went right.
- Agent Fox Mulder: Five years together, Scully. How many times have I been wrong? Never!” - From the movie: Kalifornia
“I'll never know why Early Grayce became a killer. I don't know why any of them did. When I looked into his eyes I felt nothing, nothing. That day I learned that any one of us is capable of taking another human life. But I also learned there is a difference between us and them: it's feeling remorse. Dealing with guilt. Confronting a conscience....” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Kalifornia
- From the movie: Playing God
“Now I get to use a phrase I always wanted to use in med school: take your clothes off and get under the sheets.”
- From the movie: Playing God
“Life is all a matter of perspective. You really learn that as a doctor. A man with gangrene thinks he's lucky if he only loses a finger and not an arm. So if your life was going along well, and you found yourself walking with two guys that look like Metallica's rejects, you might think it was a bad day.”
- From the movie: Zoolander
“- J.P. Prewitt: The truth is male models have been assassinating world leaders for over 200 years. Abe Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery, right? Well, who do you think made the silk stockings and powdered wigs worn by our early leaders?
- Derek Zoolander: Mugatu!
- J.P. Prewitt: Slaves, Derek. So they hired John Wilkes Booth to do Mr. Lincoln...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Evolution
“- Harry: I'm no biologist, but how many cells do single-celled organisms have?
- Ira: Harry, if we're going to be big important scientists you have to start to act the part.” - From the movie: The Rapture
- From the movie: The X Files
- From the movie: Playing God
“In any case I guess I learned that if you are in the business of saving lives you had better start with your own. And, of course, always call 911.”
- From the movie: The X Files
“- Agent Fox Mulder: You told me you had answers.
- Alvin Kurtzweil, MD: Well, I don't have 'em all.” - From the movie: The X Files
“What do you want? Coke, Pepsi, saline IV?”
- From the movie: Playing God
“Each life is made up of big decisions and each day is made up of a million little decisions. What shirt to wear, what street to walk on, what to eat for lunch. Now all of these seemingly inconsequential choices may change your life forever. But who can handle that kind of responsibility? It would paralyze you to think about it. So you have to...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Playing God
- From the movie: Evolution
“- Ira: If I was a giant nasty alien bird in a department store, where would I be?
- Harry: Lingerie.
- Ira: Not you, the bird.” - From the movie: Evolution
“- Harry: So, do they give the Nobel Prize out in yearly payments or is it just one lump sum, like the lottery?
- Ira: Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
- Harry: Oh, I'm not getting ahead of myself. I've very concerned about the potential taxconsequences.” - From the movie: The Rapture
“- Sharon: There has to be something more.
- Randy: Why?
- Sharon: I'm tired of all the pain in my life. I'm tired of feeling empty all the time.”
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