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" I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor. "
David Duchovny
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" Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will. "
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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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" In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role. "
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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 lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. "
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" My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball. "
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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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" 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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" 98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against. "
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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 may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing. "
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" Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. "
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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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" Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know? "
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