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" I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. "
David Duchovny
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" I don't like watching people work if they're making art. "
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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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" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
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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 wouldn't succeed at musical theater. "
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Musical Theater
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" I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything. "
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Hard
Anything
Scottish
" The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry. "
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Cry
Key
" When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. "
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Getting
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Started
" If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know. "
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" 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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Late
Television
Living
" Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. "
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Things
Actor
Being
" Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. "
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Sacrifice
Your
Myself
" 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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You
Information
Kind
" I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. "
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Food
Happy
Love
" 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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Love
Nature
Ocean
" It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115. "
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Page
Find
Hard
" 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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Welcome
You
Mistakes
" People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. "
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Worry
Think
Sickness
" I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. "
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Virginity
Find
Been
" I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. "
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Shelter
Spend
Money
" Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. "
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Film
Plot
Nature
" Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating. "
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Kind
Cheating
Celebrity
" I drive an electric car. "
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Drive
Car
Electric
" I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing. "
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May
Sing
Learning
" I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor. "
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Myself
Television
Actor
" I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. "
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Love
Working
Lie
" I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. "
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Self-Expression
Kind
Protect
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Look
Men
Sexy
" 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
" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "
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Better
Anything
Anybody