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" I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. "
David Duchovny
Think
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Mom
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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 had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me. "
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" It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. "
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" I'm not really a gamer. "
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" I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. "
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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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" It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115. "
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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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" Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will. "
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" 'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad. "
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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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" There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience. "
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" Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not. "
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" I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. "
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Proud
Blood
" 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 never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. "
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Life
" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "
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Oddly
" 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 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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" 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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Difficult
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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 think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor. "
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" Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. "
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" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "
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" I think Polanski's an amazing director. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. "
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Me