David Duchovny Quotes

I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that. ~ David Duchovny

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. ~ David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money. ~ 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

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. ~ 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

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed. ~ David Duchovny

You think plants don't have feelings? Maybe not the type of feelings you and I have, but they do have planty feelings, really slow feelings that unfold or blossom over years rather than seconds. ~ David Duchovny

Every time Mulder smiles, people say, 'God, it was great to see you smile. Mulder never smiles.' I say, 'Mulder smiles a whole lot. He smiles at least once a show.' People get these ideas in their heads and they're impossible to shake. But, to be honest with you, Mulder is every bit as vulnerable and quirky as Ally McBeal. I think Mulder has pretty good legs, too. ~ David Duchovny

I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.' ~ David Duchovny

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. ~ David Duchovny

I'm not really a gamer. ~ 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

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

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. ~ David Duchovny

And maybe digression isn't really digression, maybe the shortest distance between two mind points is not a straight line. Chew on that. ~ 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

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

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

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see. ~ David Duchovny

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. ~ 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

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

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

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

Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve. ~ David Duchovny

What if I don't love you?"
"I'll wait till you do."
"You might have to wait a long time."
They both got quiet. They both listened to the other breathe. They stood in different places on the exact same spot.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
There was a long pause, and then Ted said, "Waiting . . . ~ David Duchovny

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. ~ David Duchovny

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. ~ David Duchovny

The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did. ~ David Duchovny

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. ~ David Duchovny

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

Digression and digestion. It's what we do. ~ David Duchovny

I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring. ~ David Duchovny

It's hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It's hard to leave anywhere at all. ~ 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

I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious. ~ David Duchovny

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. ~ David Duchovny

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. ~ David Duchovny

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression. ~ David Duchovny

I'd love to direct more. ~ David Duchovny

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

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

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. ~ David Duchovny

I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook. ~ David Duchovny

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

They drove farther north like that. In perfect loving antagonism. It occurred to Ted that maybe Marty was like all the red and gold leaves he saw burning on the trees. In nature, it seems, things reached their most vibrant and beautiful right at the point of death, flaming out with all they had - why not natural man? His father was red, green, yellow, and gold, like a beautiful bird falling from the sky. Parodoxical undressing again. ~ David Duchovny

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

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. ~ David Duchovny

I love the Lower East Side. ~ David Duchovny

He was impressed with his father's fiction and noticed certain stylistic tics that he shared, and figured it was genetic. Why would genes determine only physical traits, eye color and left-handedness? Why not other, more subtle, bodiless proclivities such as a love of the semicolon and a propensity to string modifying clauses ad infinitum? ~ 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

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

He got out of the car and headed up to the house. He looked on the sidewalk where once he had scratched his name on the wet cement, but it was no longer there. It was smooth, like when a wave washes away initials in a heart someone drew in the sand. Always more waves than words in hearts in the sand, it seemed. ~ 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

'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good. ~ 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

Emer was troubled at how all interpretation now devolved in matters of race or gender or religion. There was no art anymore, even in children's stories. Why wasn't the crow female? Why was The Creator a He? Wasn't Bald Eagle insensitive to men with hair loss? This is how we spend our time now. ~ David Duchovny

Like many who are unable to play the game Ted had great insight into it. Perhaps being barred from success in a thing makes you overly perceptive of what makes success or failure in that thing, causes you to obsess on its technicalities and mysteries; whereas the gifted do not learn, they merely do, the less gifted stew, and ponder, and worry; they learn it the hard way and then they can teach it. The gifted can't teach what they never learned. ~ 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

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

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them. ~ 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

'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in. ~ David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. ~ David Duchovny

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

Let things sit. Let things sit on your heart. You will learn of them by their weight. ~ David Duchovny

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. ~ 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

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

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things. ~ 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 had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore. ~ 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

This is my religion - we're all animals, perfect animals created in the infinite image and imagination of nature. It's a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect. ~ David Duchovny

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

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

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

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. ~ 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

Go to bed, Ted."

"Okay."

"Wake up angry. ~ David Duchovny

You, me, the animals in the wild, the animal at your feet, the animal on your plate, the person next to you - We are all one We are all holy cows Moo ~ 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

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

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

I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. ~ David Duchovny

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role. ~ David Duchovny

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. ~ David Duchovny

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. ~ David Duchovny

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

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with. ~ David Duchovny

I drive an electric car. ~ David Duchovny

Subject: Some boat
Alex,
I know Fox Mulder. My mom watched The X-Files. She says it was because she liked the creepy store lines. I think she liked David Duchovny. She tried Californication, but I don't think her heart was in it. I think she was just sticking it to my grandmother, who has decided it's the work of the devil. She says that about most current music,too, but God help anyone who gets between her and American Idol.

The fuzzy whale was very nice, it a little hard to identify. The profile of the guy between you and the whale in the third pic was very familiar, if a little fuzzy. I won't ask. No,no. I have to ask.

I won't ask.

My mother loves his wife's suits.

I Googled. There are sharks off the coast of the Vineyard. Great big white ones. I believe you about the turtle. Did I mention that there are sharks there? I go to Surf City for a week every summer with my cousins. I eat too much ice cream. I play miniature golf-badly. I don't complain about sand in my hot dog buns or sheets. I even spend enough time on the beach to get sand in more uncomfortable places. I do not swim. I mean, I could if I wanted to but I figure that if we were meant to share the water with sharks, we would have a few extra rows of teeth, too.

I'll save you some cannoli.
-Ella

Subject: Shh
Fiorella,
Yes,Fiorella. I looked it up. It means Flower. Which, when paired with MArino, means Flower of the Sea. What ~ Melissa Jensen

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience. ~ 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

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. ~ David Duchovny

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. ~ David Duchovny

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything. ~ David Duchovny