David Duchovny Quotes
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I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.
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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 enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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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'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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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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When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
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In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
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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 think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
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I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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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 think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.
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You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
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I love the Lower East Side.
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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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'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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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
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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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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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Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
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What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.