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" I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. "
David Duchovny
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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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" I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. "
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" If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. "
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" 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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" I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. "
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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 enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "
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" Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. "
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" Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. "
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" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "
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" 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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" 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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" Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring. "
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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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Me
Fun
" I'd love to direct more. "
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" 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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" I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. "
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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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Kids
Over
World
" I wouldn't succeed at musical theater. "
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Theater
Musical Theater
Succeed
" 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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" 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 mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature. "
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" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
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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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" 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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Want
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. "
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