Washington, Jan 16: David Duchovny has revealed that he never thought of embarking on a showbiz career while he was growing up and took up acting only in his late twenties.

David Duchovny has been a part of two hit TV shows, "The X-Files" and "Californication."

"I never even had the wayward thought. It never even entered even the furthest reaches of my imagination," Fox news quoted Duchovny as saying.

"... I never thought about the actors on television or film like what kind of life they had."

The 51-year-old also asserted that he always wanted to write plays

"I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature not for acting. ... I liked the idea of collaboration and I thought if I'm gonna write plays I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write," he said.

"It might help me as a writer to actually know it from that side.

"So that's pretty much how it started," he added. (ANI)