I've transferred some of the excess quotes from the Quotes Section of the guide. Please feel free to add on quotes to this thread.
David: (on his role as Agent Fox Mulder on "The X-Files") It's pretty workday, people don't seem to realize: You get up, you take a shower, you read the paper, you play Mulder.
David: I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
David: I've always been overly concerned about what people think which has resulted in a lot of inner turmoil. I try not to give a damn but inside I'm a huge ball of worry.
David: I'm frightened by the possibilities of my own lack of talent.
David: I think I'm nice enough to look at, but I think people make a big deal about my appearance. I think it was like hypnosis, like all of the sudden everybody's been trained 'OK, now cluck like a chicken!' 'OK, now say David Duchovny's handsome!' I mean, I was a normal-looking kid, and whoever you are and whatever you look like, there are always things you want to change. I just remember that I wished I was blonde. And I wished that my nose were smaller and my lips were smaller and my eyes were bigger... you know, everything.
David: (on "The X-Files") I get tired of people asking if I believe in what's presented on the show. They don't ask the guys on ER if they believe in euthanasia.
David: If I'm not filming, I sit in my trailer on the lot. I haven't bothered to make it feel like home. I come in every morning and think maybe I should, but I never do. Blue sits in his basket and makes it feel right. There's just my stereo playing old rock 'n' roll stuff like The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.
David: First thing I do when I get up is walk Blue, my dog. I don't know if he's a baby substitute. He's actually a dog substitute, for the last dog I had. He's a receptacle of love - and love is much easier to give to a dog than to a person. Just look at the reaction he elicits when he's on set with me. He puts things in perspective.
David: (when asked is he has ever cried at a movie) Yes, Brian's Song.
David: I live on the water in Vancouver. I've got a little tree house, full of a gang of six-year olds, and I have to climb a rope to get down every morning. No, really, it's a simple, small house from around 1910, so nothing as old as you're used to in Britain. But it's right on the ocean. I love seeing the water. Always have.
David: (on sex scenes) You always hear actors say that it's not sexy – and it isn't, really, and can be embarrassing and uptight. Tea understands. We've both been on both sides of that issue.
David: My first national exposure in role was playing a transvestite in Twin Peaks. But I was worried about my mother, because I had gone from possibly being a teacher to an actor which is not very well respected, at least in my family. And now I'm going to be a woman. Well, a transvestite. So I didn't tell her. I just said, 'Watch Twin Peaks.' The show aired before in the east, I was out west, so I called with trepidation. My mother said, 'You look thin. Are you eating out there?' cause she saw my legs; she was worried about it.
David: I grew up on 11th St. and 2nd Ave. right across from the St. Mark's graveyard and Cat Corner or Kitty Corner or whatever it is to the uh, uh, 2nd Ave. Deli.
David: I had a delivery boy job when I was 13, delivering meat (is there a more embarrassing job for a 13 year old boy than to have to ride a big ugly silver bike around the city saying 'here's the meat'?) and I thought - they could have that job together. Money, kids always want a little money and independence. For what? A bike - that's what you want before you want a car or a girlfriend. But it's the same freedom and speed. A nice bike. A sexy green bike. Okay. But then a girl gets in the way. A girl in a dress the same color as the bike. The story started coming into focus.
David: (comparing himself to his character on "The X-Files") Well, Mulder doesn't have my money, But I live like Mulder, even though I sleep in a bed, not a futon.
David: (on "The X-Files") I love the show. So when I talk about this 'damn show,' it's like when you hear guys talk about their wives. They complain about them, but they still love them. They're not going to leave - they just need to complain.
David: (on why he was drawn to playing Hank Moody on "Californication") It was more of an adult style '70s-movie type comedy rather than what you see in movies today. It was adults acting badly, but like bad adults rather than bad children. It's so much fun to be able to play a guy who really doesn't care what anybody thinks about him.
Edited on 07/06/2009 1:37pm
