Top 150 David Duchovny Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.”

— David Duchovny

53. “As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.”

— David Duchovny

54. “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

55. “I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.”

— David Duchovny

56. “If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.”

— David Duchovny

57. “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.”

— David Duchovny

58. “It’s hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.”

— David Duchovny

59. “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

60. “In high school and college, I was an athlete.”

— David Duchovny

61. “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

62. “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

63. “Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.”

— David Duchovny

64. “I’ll instinctively know that I identify with a character.”

— David Duchovny

65. “I’ve got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.”

— David Duchovny

66. “It seems unlikely that we’re alone in the universe. But I’m pretty sure nobody’s hiding any contact.”

— David Duchovny

67. “I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I’d have been dead at that age and they’d have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn’t go through puberty until I was 35.”

— David Duchovny

68. “Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn’t normally get, but that’s kind of like cheating.”

— David Duchovny

69. “It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.”

— David Duchovny

70. “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

71. “What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.”

— David Duchovny

72. “I don’t discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.”

— David Duchovny

73. “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

74. “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

75. “I’m always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.”

— David Duchovny

76. “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

77. “Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.”

— David Duchovny

78. “At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It’s unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.”

— David Duchovny

79. “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.”

— David Duchovny

80. “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

81. “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

82. “I don’t know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.”

— David Duchovny

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.”

— David Duchovny

88. “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.”

— David Duchovny

89. “I don’t need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.”

— David Duchovny

90. “I like my computer. But I don’t know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.”

— David Duchovny

91. “When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.”

— David Duchovny

92. “I don’t believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.”

— David Duchovny

93. “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

94. “I had a fear that I’d be typecast, but I don’t really have that fear anymore.”

— David Duchovny

95. “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

96. “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

97. “I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.”

— David Duchovny

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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