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.
As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.
I don’t think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.
I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven’t been able to find it.
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, ‘Trust me,’ they’re actually being very un-American.
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
I’ve got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.
People are really much more respectful than they’re made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I’m not the character I play.
I don’t think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you’re not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what’s worked in the past.
I’m not a comic book character. I’m not Indiana Jones or Bond, I’m a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don’t have to do what I did in ’93. I couldn’t do it and thank God.
I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He’s the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.
I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there’s no life on Mars, there’s no God, nothing’s trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.
In the general sense, there’s a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it’s way down. Or start at the bottom and work it’s way up.
I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who’s the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I’ll play him.
I had a fear that I’d be typecast, but I don’t really have that fear anymore.
Feelings come and go, unless you don’t feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
I don’t discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.
Those characters are forever searchingeven if we’re not watching them, they’re out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that’s their nature.
The real truth about a lot of life’s mysteries can be explained by science but people don’t want to get in bed with science because it’s cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.