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. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Four hours it takes to film for one hour of show, inside the actor's studio. There was a guy in the front… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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 -… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“Of course I’m biased, what else could I be? Bias makes the world go round, sometimes a little too fast.” — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
'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… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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