David Duchovny Quotes
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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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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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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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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 enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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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 always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
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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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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
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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'm turning into a stricter dad.
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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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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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I love the Lower East Side.
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You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
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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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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'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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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.
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I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.