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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I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
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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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'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 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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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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I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
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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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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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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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In high school and college, I was an athlete.
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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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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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When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
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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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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 never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.
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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'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.