David Duchovny Quotes
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You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
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I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
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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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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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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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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 think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.
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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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I drive an electric car.
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I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.
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Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.
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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
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'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.
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I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
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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'm turning into a stricter dad.