David Duchovny Quotes

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David Duchovny

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 7, 1960

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

David Duchovny

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

David Duchovny

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.

David Duchovny

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.

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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.

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I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

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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.

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I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.

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98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.

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

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I love the Lower East Side.

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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.

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

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The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

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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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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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I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

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

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