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" I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. "
David Duchovny
Basketball
Always
Being
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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. "
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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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" It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. "
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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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" I'm not really a gamer. "
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" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "
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" Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not. "
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" On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. "
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" 98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against. "
David Duchovny
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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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Information
Kind
" I drive an electric car. "
David Duchovny
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Car
Electric
" I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. "
David Duchovny
Self-Expression
Kind
Protect
" My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life. "
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Great
Job
Life
" 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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Attached
Difficult
Because
" I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward. "
David Duchovny
Questions
Appreciate
Me
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Meditation
Day
Help
" I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. "
David Duchovny
Think
Animal
Cruel
" I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. "
David Duchovny
Think
Whatever
Choose
" Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. "
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Work
Game
Games
" I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it. "
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Comedy
People
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" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. "
David Duchovny
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" For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids. "
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Sit
" In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role. "
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Role
Actor
" I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. "
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Character
Instinctively
Know
" I don't make decisions based on money. "
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Make
" I'd love to direct more. "
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Love
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" I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film. "
David Duchovny
Stage
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Film
" Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. "
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Nature
" I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. "
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E-Mail
Me
" You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. "
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You