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" I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets. "
David Duchovny
Stupid
Kind
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" I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.' "
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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 love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. "
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" I drive an electric car. "
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" Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. "
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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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" Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. "
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Nature
" I'm turning into a stricter dad. "
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Stricter
Turning
" If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. "
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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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" Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. "
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" One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too. "
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You
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" 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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Television
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" I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor. "
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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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" 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'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. "
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" I'm not really a gamer. "
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" People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts. "
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" I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it. "
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" When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. "
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" Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?' "
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" 'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in. "
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