Quotes by David Duchovny

About David Duchovny:

David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and singer-songwriter. He is known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the science-fiction horror drama series The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on the comedy-drama series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. Duchovny has appeared in the two X-Files films, the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the same name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008). As of May 2015, he has been executive producing and starring in the historically-based cop drama Aquarius.
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

David Duchovny

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

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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 half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

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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

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

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

'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 di...

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'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.

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It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

David Duchovny

I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. T...

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

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

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

David Duchovny

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

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

David Duchovny

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

David Duchovny

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameDavid Duchovny
  • DescriptionUS-American actor
  • BornAugust 7, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Film Director; Writer
  • WorksThe X-Files; Californication
  • AwardsGolden Globe Award