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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. "

David Duchovny

Late

Television

Living

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Ways

Everything

" What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. "

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People

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Really

Gamer

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Love

Direct

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" I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything. "

" 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. "

" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "

" I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love the Lower East Side. "

" Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery. "

" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. "

" 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. "

" It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. "

" Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. "

" I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other. "

" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "

" 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

" Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?' "

David Duchovny

Think

Person

" My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. "

" I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower. "

" 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. "

" The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did. "