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."

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

— David Duchovny

Nature

All Quotes by David Duchovny

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

— David Duchovny

Nature

“You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.”

— David Duchovny

Food

“There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.”

— David Duchovny

Humor

“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

“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

Money

“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

Men

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

— David Duchovny

Patience

“I'm turning into a stricter dad.”

— David Duchovny

Dad

“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

“There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.”

— David Duchovny

Experience

“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.”

— David Duchovny

Nature

“I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.”

— David Duchovny

Learning

“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 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 just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.”

— David Duchovny

Food

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

— David Duchovny

Romantic

“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 Polanski's an amazing director.”

— David Duchovny

Amazing

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

— David Duchovny

Respect

“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