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 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.
When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.