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" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "
David Duchovny
Your
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Mind
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" I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. "
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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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" In high school and college, I was an athlete. "
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" There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor. "
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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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" People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts. "
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Respect
Truth
" I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. "
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" I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery. "
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" 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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" I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "
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" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "
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Anything
Anybody
" It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. "
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Someone
Responsibility
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