Top 150 David Duchovny Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “I drive an electric car.”

— David Duchovny

53. “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

54. “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

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

— David Duchovny

56. “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

57. “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

58. “I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it’s hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.”

— David Duchovny

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

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

— David Duchovny

63. “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

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

71. “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

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

— David Duchovny

75. “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

76. “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

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

— David Duchovny

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

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

— David Duchovny

82. “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

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

— David Duchovny

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

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

— David Duchovny

88. “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

89. “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

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

— David Duchovny

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

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

— David Duchovny

95. “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

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

100. “I don’t like watching people work if they’re making art.”

— David Duchovny