Top 150 David Duchovny Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.”

— David Duchovny

102. “I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.”

— David Duchovny

103. “I don’t think I’d ever be cruel to an animal.”

— David Duchovny

104. “A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don’t have proven directors attached to them.”

— David Duchovny

105. “You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I’ve heard is that I’m allergic to metal.”

— David Duchovny

106. “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

107. “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

108. “There’s two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.”

— David Duchovny

109. “I may be learning guitar, but I’ll never be able to sing.”

— David Duchovny

110. “Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.”

— David Duchovny

111. “I don’t see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It’s absolutely the same. It’s different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.”

— David Duchovny

112. “Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, ‘Is that person like me?’”

— David Duchovny

113. “I wouldn’t succeed at musical theater.”

— David Duchovny

114. “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. They want you to tell about what you saw.”

— David Duchovny

115. “I wouldn’t say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.”

— David Duchovny

116. “I don’t want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.”

— David Duchovny

117. “Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.”

— David Duchovny

118. “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

119. “Haat is een vergif dat je bereidt voor je vijand, maar uiteindelijk zelf inslikt.”

— David Duchovny

120. “I never saw it before. I see it all now. All of it. It’s never Mickey Mantle that kills you. Never Willie Mays. Never the thing you prepare for. It’s always the little thing you didn’t see coming. The head cold that puts you in your grave. It’s always Bucky Dent.” Ted.”

— David Duchovny

121. “Though there were some muted colors, the world in here felt black and white. Filled with essentials for a man who had no needs. The.”

— David Duchovny

122. “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

123. “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

124. “The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. – CHARLES DARWIN.”

— David Duchovny

125. “As John Milton put it centuries ago in Areopagitica: “I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary.” Ideas should be engaged in the same Darwinian struggle as all the rest of life.”

— David Duchovny

126. “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

127. “What a strange god that instead of bringing people together, divides them.”

— David Duchovny

128. “I told you already that Mother Earth is our god, and the only thing that offends our god is waste and pollution, not words and pictures and jokes. I have nothing but sympathy for reverence of God in the abstract. Love of God and life is as natural as the force that holds the planets in their dance.”

— David Duchovny

129. “The way they talked about what happened, Mary said, was almost more important than what had happened.”

— David Duchovny

130. “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

131. “Dickinson had no voice in her own time, as a woman, so she stuffed her silent screams, more than eight hundred of them, in a drawer and waited for eternity hear. And eternity did hear.”

— David Duchovny

132. “Digression and digestion. It’s what we do.”

— David Duchovny

133. “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

134. “Of course I’m biased, what else could I be? Bias makes the world go round, sometimes a little too fast.”

— David Duchovny

135. “Ted’s old single bed had weird dreams in it.”

— David Duchovny

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

139. “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

140. “I’ve never seen a wild almond or a soy galloping about in its natural habitat, but cow milk is the best.”

— David Duchovny

141. “It’s hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It’s hard to leave anywhere at all.”

— David Duchovny

142. “He liked how sometimes science helped him to know and hate himself more thoroughly.”

— David Duchovny

143. “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

144. “Humans have to earn the right to be called animals again.”

— David Duchovny

145. “Then they just get it with their minds, intellectually, because if they got it with their hearts and souls, they would change, they would change and rejoin the animal kingdom and once again be proud to be called animals.”

— David Duchovny

146. “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

147. “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

148. “There is something in man that loves a wall, but what wall menders and fence builders do not get is that when they fence something out, they are also fencing themselves in. Not one but two prisons are made by one wall.”

— David Duchovny

149. “Hate is like a poison you make for your enemy that you end up swallowing yourself.”

— David Duchovny

150. “Not one but two prisons are made by one wall.”

— David Duchovny