286 Quotes by David Duchovny

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they’re all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

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.

A dream is the mind’s way of answering a question it hasn’t yet figured out how to ask.

I’m always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

There’s two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

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.

There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I’m a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there’s no bleed-over. I didn’t need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.

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.