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 think it's a really good song, ... I found myself playing it in my car now and then.
We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck.
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.
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him.
People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.
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.
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.
I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.
It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.