It`s not someone else`s responsibility to honor my marriage. It`s my responsibility.

[On his role as Agent Fox Mulder on "The X-Files"] "It`s pretty workaday, people don`t seem to realize: You get up, you take a shower, you read the paper, you play Mulder." (from June 1998 "Entertainment Weekly" interview)

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they`re not, we cry.

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I`m lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

Women`s fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It`s men`s way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they`re actually tied up.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don`t care about anything except affection and food. They`re loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

[About "The X-Files"] "I get tired of people asking if I believe in what`s presented on the show. They don`t ask the guys on `E.R.` if they believe in euthanasia." (from Oct. 1997 "Chicago Tribune" interview)

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus -- there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

If you`re smart, you`ll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there`ll always be somebody who`s never read a book who`ll know twice what you know.

Fame does lead to money, which I don`t have a close relationship with. I`m the kind of guy who never sees the money -- it all goes somewhere else. I don`t understand it, I don`t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We`d like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

Sex is great until you die, but it`s never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

One of the scary things is that, when you`re a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you`re an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven`t been able to find it.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

We really have to reconsider what it is that a public person gives up. Why does a public person give up all his or her rights to privacy?

I`m frightened by the possibilities of my own lack of talent.

I`m half Jewish, half Scottish. It`s hard for me to buy anything.

I think I`m nice enough to look at, but I think people make a big deal about my appearance. I think it was like hypnosis, like all of the sudden everybody`s been trained: `OK, now cluck like a chicken!` `OK, now say David Duchovny`s handsome!` I mean, I was a normal-looking kid, and whoever you are and whatever you look like, there are always things you want to change. I just remember that I wished I was blond. And I wished that my nose were smaller and my lips were smaller and my eyes were bigger... you know, everything.

I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

You`re raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it`s special. I think people react to celebrities like that -- I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

I`ve always been overly concerned about what people think which has resulted in a lot of inner turmoil. I try not to give a damn but inside I`m a huge ball of worry.

I don`t think I`d ever be cruel to an animal.

People think celebrities don`t have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It`s like you`ve traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

Fame does lead to money, which I don`t have a close relationship with. I`m the kind of guy who never sees the money -- it all goes somewhere else. I don`t understand it, I don`t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it`s not natural to me. So I don`t take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they`re all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.