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Quotes by David Duchovny

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.
– David Duchovny
Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, that person, if she is smart and Gillian is smart shouldn't want to meet the other person after hours. That's also true for the other way round.
– David Duchovny
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
I don't care why people love me, just as long as they love me. And I don't even care that they do so much. Is it better to have money or not to have money? Better to have love or not? Both money and love may be bad for the soul or bad for the art. I'm on a show that a lot of people like to watch. Does that make me better off?
– David Duchovny
I don't socialise with Gillian just because we're working together all the time. You can't describe our relationship as 'like' or 'dislike'. We've been thrown together, two people who don't know each other and forced to spend more time together than married people do.
– David Duchovny
I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
I would never sing in public. Because I've got a horrible voice. It just sounds bad. I mean, Tea claims to like to hear me sing, and I think it's because I enjoy it so much. We sing in the car ... And she air-drums. This is why we have tinted windows. A lot of people think it's because we don't want people to see us and follow us home, but it's really because we're making fools of ourselves.
– David Duchovny
I'm not a religious person. If I get close to religion it's in these moments when people faint and shudder and have orgasms with religious fervor - I don't think they're kidding. And I'm envious.
– David Duchovny
I've actually never been interested in sci-fi. The X-files was a job I auditioned for because I liked the script, and I liked the character of Mulder. At that time, it was a lot different to the kind of roles I'd done, which were more sexual. And I found this character to be edgier and more asexual. The same happened with Evolution. I took the role because I wanted to do a comedy.
– David Duchovny
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
– David Duchovny
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
No sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking there's more than that between us amuses me. With Gillian, we've created the illusion of romance.
– David Duchovny
Now that I'm married and thinking of having a family, my greatest fear is being unable to defend my loved ones.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
When you have a child, it really frees your emotions, but it's so overwhelming you feel like going, Ow, don't make me feel so much. I'm going to cry if you keep laughing. That kind of thing..
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
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
You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.
– David Duchovny
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
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
– David Duchovny
There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
– David Duchovny
In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
– David Duchovny
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.'
– David Duchovny
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
I'm turning into a stricter dad.
– David Duchovny
I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
– David Duchovny
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
– David Duchovny
I think Polanski's an amazing director.
– David Duchovny
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
– David Duchovny
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
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
– David Duchovny
I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
– David Duchovny
I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.
– David Duchovny
I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
– David Duchovny
I drive an electric car.
– David Duchovny
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
– David Duchovny
I don't make decisions based on money.
– David Duchovny
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
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.
– David Duchovny
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