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" I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see. "
David Duchovny
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" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. "
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" In high school and college, I was an athlete. "
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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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" You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children. "
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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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" 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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" 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 don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "
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" I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch. "
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