David Duchovny (Actor)

"All the reasons I had for getting into acting were mercenary. I wanted to have fun and make some money. But once I started classes I realized it was something I could enjoy on a spiritual and emotional level. In those classes you get to scream and laugh and cry and I guess because I'd come from a strict academic environment it was really liberating. You can do the most powerful things and not have to pay for it, you can sleep with your neighbour's wife or kill someone and you don't have to get beaten up for it or go to jail." - Duchovny to Martyn Palmer in the London Times, Aug. 17, 1998

"Before I jumped into the next 10 years of my life, I really wanted to do something new, something that would challenge me," he says. "And now that I've got kids, there's something else that's important, so failing doesn't feel as horrific." - Duchovny on writting and directing his first feature "House of D" to People magazine, April 25, 2005

"If I have a morality about performance, it's kind of a Protestant one, It's not celebratory; sometimes I wish it was more that way. When I look at my wife [Tea Leoni] I see a physical expression of acting that is fun. Or when I look at an actor like Al Pacino or Nicolas Cage or John Travolta. And given the chance, I'd like to try that, because I recognize the joy in the performance. But my natural inclination is to keep it real, and to try at all costs to hide, which is what people do [in real life]." - David Duchovny quoted in Vanity Fair magazine, June 1998

"If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know." - Duchovny downplaying his education, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1999

"You're an idiot if you're not riddled with self-doubt at all times - even when your having success after success. I think self-doubt is healthy as long as it's not crippling." - Duchovny to Emmy magazine, Issue No. 3, 2008

About his awareness that some fans resent that he has never appeared at an X-Files convention (as did co-star Gillian Anderson) and think of him as ungrateful: "Unfortunately, the possibility is that they see me as aloof. My feeling is that I make the show, and that takes so much time and so much energy, and that's a gift, even though I'm compensated for it. That's my gift to the fans and that's where I'd like it to end." - Duchovny quoted in the London Times, Aug. 11, 1998

In the 1999 online voting for the first annual TV Guide Awards, Duchovny was cited as Best-Dressed Male and Sexiest Male.

On Aug. 28, 2008, Duchovny's lawyer, Stanton Stein revealed that his client had checked himself into rehab to undergo treatment for sex addiction. Through his attorney, he released the statement: "I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction. I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."

Singer Bree Sharp wrote a song called "David Duchovny"; Production assistants on "The X-Files" made a mock video of the song with celebrities like Brad Pitt, Pamela Anderson Lee, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Whoopi Goldberg, Janeane Garofalo and George Clooney.