Wealth & Money Quote by David Duchovny

Duchovny punctures the glossy myth that celebrity automatically produces security. He concedes the cultural math - fame turns into money - then immediately undercuts it with a confession that feels almost sheepish: he is adjacent to wealth without ever quite touching it. The line "it all goes somewhere else" is doing double duty. On the surface, it is the practical reality of managers, taxes, agents, divorces, obligations. Underneath, it reads like emotional outsourcing: letting other people steer the frightening, adult machinery of money so he can keep his hands clean.

That refusal is not framed as virtue, but as aversion. "I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it" plays like someone describing a phobia, not a budget. Which makes the final turn - "I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it" - the real reveal. Poverty doesn't just limit your options; it can wire your nervous system. Even after success, the scarcity mindset remains, turning money into a symbol of threat rather than freedom.

The intent here isn't to brag about being too artistic to care about cash. It's to admit a contradiction many public figures sell as effortless: the same person can be materially successful and financially anxious. In an era when celebrity brands are expected to be hyper-competent empires, Duchovny offers something messier and more believable: wealth as a byproduct, and money as an unresolved childhood story that fame can't edit out.