David Duchovny Quotes

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David Duchovny

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 7, 1960

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

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I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'

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I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

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

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I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

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I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

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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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I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

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I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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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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You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

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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.

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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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Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.

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

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