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" Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will. "
David Duchovny
Know
Never
Will
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" I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious. "
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" I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can. "
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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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Nature
Ocean
" I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. "
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Thought
Collaboration
Time
" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. 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. "
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Television
Living
" In high school and college, I was an athlete. "
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College
School
High School
" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "
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Better
Anything
Anybody
" I still feel like I haven't grown up. "
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Grown
Like
Still
" I'm not really a gamer. "
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Really
Gamer
" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "
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Images
Arrogant
Oddly
" I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. "
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Virginity
Find
Been
" 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
" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
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Born
Daughter
Moment
" Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. "
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Most
Expect
Me
" I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. "
David Duchovny
Love
Working
Lie
" At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist. "
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Artist
People
Time
" I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. "
David Duchovny
Think
Whatever
Choose
" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "
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Your
Control
Mind
" I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. "
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Basketball
Always
Being
" 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 love the Lower East Side. "
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Side
Love
I Love
" Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up. "
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Look
Men
Sexy
" One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you. "
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Acting
Within
Nice
" 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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Meditation
Day
Help
" I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.' "
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Love
Better
Good
" 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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Character
Learning
Place
" It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. "
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Like
Say
Trying
" People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts. "
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" Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. "
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Considered
Quality
Humility