A biography for David Duchovnyhasn’t been written yet.
“Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'”
“I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.”
“If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.”
“Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.”
“My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.”
“I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.”
“I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.”
“One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.”
“There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.”
“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 the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.”
“Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.”
“When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.”
“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”
“In high school and college, I was an athlete.”
“I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.”
“98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.”
“I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.”
“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?”
“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.”