A biography for David Duchovnyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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 don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.”
“I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.”
“Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.”
“It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.”
“I drive an electric car.”
“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 never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.”
“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 had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.”
“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.”
“You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.”
“A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.”
“In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.”
“You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?”
“The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.”
“If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.”
“I still feel like I haven't grown up.”
“Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.”