David Duchovny Quotes
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I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.
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I still feel like I haven't grown up.
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Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
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I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.
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'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
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I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
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I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
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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.
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It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?
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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.
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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
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I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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In high school and college, I was an athlete.
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Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
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I'm turning into a stricter dad.
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
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I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.
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I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.
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'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.
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I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.