David Duchovny

David Duchovny

36 quotes

Actor and wordsmith — David Duchovny (b. 1960) is an American voice whose observations cut across disciplines. The range of their thinking — from Money to Fear — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 43 quotes from David Duchovny, each offering a different angle on Money, Fear, Food, Women, and Truth. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film."

“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

Dad

All Quotes by David Duchovny

“I drive an electric car.”

— David Duchovny

Car

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

— David Duchovny

Age

“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.”

— David Duchovny

Respect

“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

“I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.”

— David Duchovny

Romantic

“I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.”

— David Duchovny

Fear

“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

Fear

“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

Good

“You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.”

— David Duchovny

Women

“Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.”

— David Duchovny

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.”

— David Duchovny

Future

“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

Dad

“I don't make decisions based on money.”

— David Duchovny

Money

“I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.”

— David Duchovny

Music

“I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.”

— David Duchovny

Mom

“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.”

— David Duchovny

Fear

“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”

— David Duchovny

Patience

“I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.”

— David Duchovny

Happiness

“I think Polanski's an amazing director.”

— David Duchovny

Amazing

“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

Relationship