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" I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. "
David Duchovny
Scottish
Proud
Blood
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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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" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. "
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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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" I drive an electric car. "
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" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "
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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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" I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. "
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" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "
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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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" I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook. "
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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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" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not really a gamer. "
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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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" 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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" I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. "
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Working
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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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" 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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" Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. "
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" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "
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" I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. "
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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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" 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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" I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "
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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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" Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. "
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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 don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. "
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