Duchovny David Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking. — David Duchovny

In high school and college, I was an athlete. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore. — David Duchovny

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery. — David Duchovny

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. — David Duchovny

If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him ... but it wouldn't be with an ice pick. — David Duchovny

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. — David Duchovny

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. — David Duchovny

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in. — David Duchovny

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. — David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

When Ted opened the door to find Mariana there, his first thought was, "I don't know what I'm wearing." And he didn't look down; he had a bad feeling and didn't want to face it, he kept his eyes on the girl, who said, "Hello, Theodore. — David Duchovny

Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not. — David Duchovny

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. — David Duchovny

Virgil reached into the wool cap that contained his dreads, stuffed so full as to give him the appearance, Ted thought, of the Great Kazoo on the latter years of The Flintstones or a Jiffy Pop container expanded to its max. (Ted made a mental note that these are not bad similes and hoped he could find them on a rainy day.) — David Duchovny

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it. — David Duchovny

Garry Shandling is someone I've publicly gone gay for, for jokes. Oh and anyone in the Twilight movies. I don't know any of their names, but all of them. The wolves, the vampires? They're all fantastic. — David Duchovny

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him. — David Duchovny

Selfies, they call 'em, and that makes sense 'cause even though they're sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an "I phone"? 'Cause it's all about me me me. Like talking to hear yourself talk. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck. — David Duchovny

I poop in the backyard ... I wear disposable diapers. — David Duchovny

What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line. — David Duchovny

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom. — David Duchovny

And the bowling average? The obsession with statistics, the purity and power of the numbers worked to the seventh decimal place, as if some truth were hidden in the golden mean. He could feel his young self grasping for solidity in those numbers, keys to himself - I am this concrete, numerical thing. I am 134.7538658. — David Duchovny

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird. — David Duchovny

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. — David Duchovny

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. — David Duchovny

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be. — David Duchovny

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life. — David Duchovny

The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty ... hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy. — David Duchovny

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor. — David Duchovny

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display. — David Duchovny

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago. — David Duchovny

I'm the one usually wearing the dress, which is what I would've preferred, but they wouldn't let me. It's been 15 years since I did that and my ass isn't as good as it used to be. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. — David Duchovny

It's hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It's hard to leave anywhere at all. — David Duchovny

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth. — David Duchovny

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. — David Duchovny

I still feel like I haven't grown up. — David Duchovny

You can't just wear the food chain around your neck like a bauble or necklace. You're part of it and if you keep treating it with disdain, that chain will strangle you. — David Duchovny

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask. — David Duchovny

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things. — David Duchovny

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that! — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it. — David Duchovny

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?' — Tea Leoni

I feel like I came to acting late in a way. — David Duchovny

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking. — David Duchovny

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father ... it got more interesting. — David Duchovny

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me. — David Duchovny

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

I think Polanski's an amazing director. — David Duchovny

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will. — David Duchovny

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?' — David Duchovny

It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew. — David Duchovny

I love the Lower East Side. — David Duchovny

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them. — David Duchovny

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting. — David Duchovny

Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve. — David Duchovny

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. — David Duchovny

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. — David Duchovny

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. — David Duchovny

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though. — David Duchovny

I'd love to direct more. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

You humans drink our milk and eat the eggs of the chickens and the ducks. Isn't that enough for you? Isn't it enough that we give you our children and what's meant for our children? And if not, when is it enough? All you humans do is take, take, take from the earth and its beautiful creatures, and what do you give back? Nothing. I know humans consider it a grave insult to be called an animal. Well, I would never give a human the fine distinction of being called an animal, because an animal may kill to live but an animal never lives to kill. Humans have to earn the right to be called animals again. — David Duchovny

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. — David Duchovny

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!' — Chris Carter

98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against. — David Duchovny

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know? — David Duchovny

He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his anger at his father, and every word, however well intentioned or intentionally barbed, was a pull at a scab on his bloody heart. It was too late for any of this. There could ultimately be no healing. Marty had terminal cancer, and so did the two men have a cancer between them. They were terminal together, as father and son. They remained, momentarily exhausted, but it was really only that quiet between lightning and thunder as sound lags behind speed. The lightning had cracked the ground already, you just hadn't heard it yet. — David Duchovny

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

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. — David Duchovny

I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets. — David Duchovny

'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad. — David Duchovny

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

I don't know about the baby, but I will be interested to see, like anyone who's a fan of the show [how it's resolved]," he said, and then joked, "They'll have to resolve me while I'm not there, so I hope they don't say, 'Oh yeah, Mulder's gone, what an asshole. He had a baby with me, he kissed me and then he left.' — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind ... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does. — Jillian Bach

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115. — David Duchovny

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact. — David Duchovny

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. — David Duchovny

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature. — David Duchovny

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies. — David Duchovny