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" Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating. "

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David Duchovny

Fear

You

Father

" I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. "

" I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch. "

David Duchovny

Ways

Everything

" I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. "

" 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. "

" Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. "

" I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. "

" 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. "

" Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you. "

" 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. "

" I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor. "

David Duchovny

Actor

Know

" When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world. "

" In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. "

David Duchovny

Much

Before

" '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. "

" 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? "

" If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. "

" Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?' "

David Duchovny

Think

Person

" I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there. "

" In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role. "

" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "

" I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience. "

" 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. "

" Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. "

" I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. "

" You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail. "