David Duchovny Quotes
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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 never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
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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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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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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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In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
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I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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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'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
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I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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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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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 people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.
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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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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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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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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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'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 don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
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Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.
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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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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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A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.