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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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" 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. "

David Duchovny

Fall

Family

Life

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it. "

David Duchovny

Comedy

People

" Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed. "

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

David Duchovny

Think

Person

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

" 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. "

" Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial. "

" If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. "

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

David Duchovny

Actor

Know

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Duchovny

Questions

Appreciate

" I drive an electric car. "

" I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see. "

David Duchovny

Know

Movie

" I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing. "

" I'd love to direct more. "

David Duchovny

Love

Direct

" 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. "

" I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. "

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

" In high school and college, I was an athlete. "

" I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. "

" I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower. "

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

" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "