David Duchovny Quotes

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

Creativity, Touch, Anxiety

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

Trust, Cry, Key

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

Love, Good, Down

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

Women, Men, Sexy

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
David Duchovny

Basketball, Dream, Player

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

Work, Writing, Hard

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

Love, Food, Happy

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

Live, Envy, Tell

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
David Duchovny

Mad, Makes, Arrogance

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
David Duchovny

Lost, Find, Able

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?
David Duchovny

Together, Two, Put

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

Death, Human, Country

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

Time, Money, Artist

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

Truth, Help, Down

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

Love, Live, Him

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
David Duchovny

Life, Existence, Hide

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
David Duchovny

Age, Before, Media

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.
David Duchovny

Work, Game, Mean

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

Life, Future, Past

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

Fear, Dad, Father

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
David Duchovny

Life, Moment, Born

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
David Duchovny

Sacrifice, Making, Loss

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.
David Duchovny

Person, Wish, Against

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
David Duchovny

Passion, Difficult, Times

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
David Duchovny

Actually, Interest, Finishing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 7, 1960

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