A biography for David Duchovnyhasn’t been written yet.
“I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.”
“It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.”
“I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.”
“I love the Lower East Side.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.”
“I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.”
“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.”
“What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.”
“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.'”
“In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.”
“I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.”
“I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.”
“I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.”
“In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.”
“I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.”
“I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.”
“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.”
“'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.”