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" It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. "
David Duchovny
Honor
Someone
Responsibility
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" 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. "
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Fall
Family
Life
" Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will. "
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Know
Never
Will
" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. "
David Duchovny
Late
I Feel
Feel
" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "
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Call
Poetry
Well
" I still feel like I haven't grown up. "
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Grown
Like
Still
" I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything. "
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Hard
Anything
Scottish
" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "
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Your
Control
Mind
" 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. "
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Think
You
Time
" It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist? "
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Create
Mystery
Wife
" I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. "
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Love
Working
Lie
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Relationship
Fame
Fear
" I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. "
David Duchovny
Off
Write
My Life
" 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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Myself
Television
Actor
" I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "
David Duchovny
Trying
Best
Compliment
" When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. "
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Kids
Over
World
" I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. "
David Duchovny
Think
Animal
Cruel
" I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch. "
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Ways
Up
Everything
" I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. "
David Duchovny
Kind
Film
Life
" 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. "
David Duchovny
Great
Job
Life
" Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. "
David Duchovny
Things
Actor
Being
" I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it. "
David Duchovny
Comedy
People
Me
" I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can. "
David Duchovny
Welcome
You
Mistakes
" If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. "
David Duchovny
Going
Christ
Need
" '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. "
David Duchovny
Spiritual
Father
Mother
" Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. "
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Film
Plot
Nature
" I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.' "
David Duchovny
Love
Better
Good
" 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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Late
Television
Living
" 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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Best
College
Lying
" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
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Born
Daughter
Moment
" You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail. "
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Only
Become
Fail