David Duchovny Quotes

It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

I was something of a late bloomer.

I started growing late, so I was a late developer.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

I was a late bloomer.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

I was definitely a late bloomer.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

History requires us to judge the figures of the past not by our moral standards but by those of the ages in which they lived and worked.

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

To the extent I bloomed, I'm a late bloomer.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

To put it mildly, I was just a very late bloomer.

I've always been what they call a late bloomer.

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

I think I went through puberty really late in life or something. I always looked like a little, sad Thai boy up until I was 26.

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up - and gay men should stand up at least halfway.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.