Feelings come and go, unless you don’t feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
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.
I don’t believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
I’m actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don’t think anyone’s ever quite segued into that.
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.
A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.
If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.
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.
Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don’t say ‘game’ in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I’ve heard is that I’m allergic to metal.
I’ve turned down jobs because I’ve said, ‘Honestly, I can’t find my way in. I can’t do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.’
I like my computer. But I don’t know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I’m a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there’s no bleed-over. I didn’t need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.
Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.
I don’t see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It’s absolutely the same. It’s different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.
It seems unlikely that we’re alone in the universe. But I’m pretty sure nobody’s hiding any contact.
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can’t go back and play him the same way.