David Duchovny Quotes
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You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.
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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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On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
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I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
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I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.
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When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
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I still feel like I haven't grown up.
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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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In high school and college, I was an athlete.
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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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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 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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In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
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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 had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
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I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
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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 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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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did.