David Duchovny Quotes
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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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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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I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
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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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One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
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I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
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I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
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I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
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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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I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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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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Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.
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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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A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
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Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?
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I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
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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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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.