Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by David Duchovny
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
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.
I drive an electric car.
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.
I don't make decisions based on money.
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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.
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.
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.
I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
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.
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.
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
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.
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
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.
Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'
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.'
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.
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.
I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.
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.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
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.
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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.
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.
I'm not really a gamer.
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.
Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.
I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
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.
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.
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.
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.
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.
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.
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