106+ David Duchovny Quotes On Twin Peaks, X Files And Jimmy Kimmel

David Duchovny is an American actor best known for his roles as Fox Mulder in the science fiction drama series The X-Files and Hank Moody in the television series Californication. He has also appeared in films such as The X-Files, Evolution, Zoolander and The Joneses. He has also written and directed several films, including House of D and Hell or High Water. Following is our collection on famous quotes by David Duchovny on love, life, leadership.

Top 10 David Duchovny Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
5. Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
6. 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.
7. The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.
8. I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.
9. I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.
10. I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

David Duchovny Short Quotes

• I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
• I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.
• I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
• I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
• The critical mind is the creative mind.
• I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.
• Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.
• Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.
• You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.
• Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.

David Duchovny Quotes About Love

I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him. — 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

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask. — David Duchovny

David Duchovny Quotes About Life

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

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

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

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life. — David Duchovny

David Duchovny Quotes About People

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

Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American. — David Duchovny

I really like gratuitous nudity. I hate when people go, 'I'll only do it if it makes sense for the movie'. It never makes sense. So I like it - the more gratuitous the better. — David Duchovny

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

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you. — David Duchovny

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

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

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work. — 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. They want you to tell about what you saw. — David Duchovny

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in. — David Duchovny

David Duchovny Famous Quotes And Sayings

I dont 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

Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display. — 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

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

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird. — 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 know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way. — 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

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. — David Duchovny

There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate enough to be able to throw some chords together and write songs, but I can only feel that because I'm expressing something honestly, or in a heartfelt way, or in some way that's not bullshit, that in some way the songs have merit. — David Duchovny

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

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible. — David Duchovny

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. — David Duchovny

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. — David Duchovny

I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of impressed by my enthusiasm. I'm just thankful that I got to become better at what I did, and that we didn't get cancelled in the first year. — David Duchovny

Every time Mulder smiles, people say, 'God, it was great to see you smile. Mulder never smiles.' I say, 'Mulder smiles a whole lot. He smiles at least once a show.' People get these ideas in their heads and they're impossible to shake. But, to be honest with you, Mulder is every bit as vulnerable and quirky as Ally McBeal. I think Mulder has pretty good legs, too. — David Duchovny

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that! — David Duchovny

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

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

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking. — David Duchovny

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things. — David Duchovny

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention. — David Duchovny

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother. — David Duchovny

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny

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

People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English. — David Duchovny

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter. — David Duchovny

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

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck. — 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 reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches. — David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money. — David Duchovny

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

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer. — David Duchovny

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact. — David Duchovny

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

If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick. — David Duchovny

As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself. — David Duchovny

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him. — David Duchovny

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them. — David Duchovny

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way. — David Duchovny

I don't know about the baby, but I will be interested to see, like anyone who's a fan of the show [how it's resolved]," he said, and then joked, "They'll have to resolve me while I'm not there, so I hope they don't say, 'Oh yeah, Mulder's gone, what an asshole. He had a baby with me, he kissed me and then he left.' — David Duchovny

The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that's pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy. — David Duchovny

I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring. — David Duchovny

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing. — David Duchovny

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot. — David Duchovny

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for. — David Duchovny

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

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression. — David Duchovny

I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad. — David Duchovny

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist. — David Duchovny

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline." — David Duchovny

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail. — 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

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again. — David Duchovny

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. — David Duchovny

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. — David Duchovny

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter. — David Duchovny

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

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

I don't like watching people work if they're making art. — David Duchovny

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking. — David Duchovny

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours, what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners. — David Duchovny

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be. — David Duchovny

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting. — David Duchovny

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

TV was the boogey man when I was growing up. Video games are the boogey man now. The novel was once a boogey man. Books about lowborn people doing lowborn things were once considered a real assault on people's morals. Maybe some day video games will be looked on as a good thing, but personally I don't see it. — David Duchovny

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language. — David Duchovny

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. — David Duchovny

Life Lessons by David Duchovny

1. David Duchovny has taught us that it's important to stay humble and to never take success for granted. He has also shown us the importance of staying true to yourself and never compromising your values.
2. He has demonstrated the importance of staying focused and never giving up on your dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be.
3. Finally, he has taught us that it's important to take risks and to never be afraid to try something new, as it can lead to great opportunities and experiences.