David Duchovny Quotes
In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
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I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
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There was some justice in his pain.
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Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.
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But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.
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I like to disappear in the parts I play.
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I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.
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In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
