David Duchovny
David Duchovny
David William Duchovnyis an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the sci-fi horror action drama show The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on the comedy-drama series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. Duchovny appeared in both of the two X-Files films, the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the same name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe. As of May 2015, he has...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth7 August 1960
CityNew York City, NY
I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.
Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.
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.
In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
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.
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.
I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.
Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.