Television Quotes by David Duchovny

12 Television quotes by David Duchovny

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Duchovny’s off‑screen musings reveal a different side of the star. This concise collection of twelve quotes offers a taste of his thoughtful take on the medium that made him famous.

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I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make…

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I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.

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I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

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I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you…

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I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

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One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around…

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I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that…

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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they…

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Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in…

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I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing…

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'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so…

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The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the…

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My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so…

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I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made…

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I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have…

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Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So…

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I still feel like I haven't grown up.

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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

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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 -…

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I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

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Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get,…

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“Of course I’m biased, what else could I be? Bias makes the world go round, sometimes a little too fast.”

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'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…

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

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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

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I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to…

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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with…

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