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" You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail. "
David Duchovny
Only
Become
Fail
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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'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. "
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Kind
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" I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. "
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Love
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" I think Polanski's an amazing director. "
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I Think
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" One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you. "
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Within
Nice
" I'm turning into a stricter dad. "
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Dad
Stricter
Turning
" 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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Think
Role
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" I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. "
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Shelter
Spend
Money
" On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. "
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Think
People
Envy
" Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice. "
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Sacrifice
Your
Myself
" Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. "
David Duchovny
Film
Plot
Nature
" 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. "
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Thought
Collaboration
Time
" At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist. "
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Artist
People
Time
" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "
David Duchovny
Call
Poetry
Well
" 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? "
David Duchovny
Think
Know
Together
" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "
David Duchovny
Images
Arrogant
Oddly
" It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. "
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Like
Say
Trying
" What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. "
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Arrogance
Pretension
Makes
" I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. "
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Hide
Believe
Conspiracy
" I don't like watching people work if they're making art. "
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Work
People
Like
" For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids. "
David Duchovny
Now
Play
Sit
" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "
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Better
Anything
Anybody
" It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115. "
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Page
Find
Hard
" I drive an electric car. "
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Drive
Car
Electric
" 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
" If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. "
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Going
Christ
Need
" You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. "
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Fashion
Speak
You
" 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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Look
Men
Sexy
" I'd love to direct more. "
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Love
Direct
More
" I feel like I came to acting late in a way. "
David Duchovny
Late
I Feel
Feel