David Duchovny Quotes - Page 3

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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. They want you to tell about what you saw.

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  Country, Thinking, Land

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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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  Thinking, Like Me, Persons

  "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.

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

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  Get Better, Know How, Knows

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 14, 2011.

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• 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, Intelligent, Views

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• The critical mind is the creative mind.

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  Creative, Mind, Creative Mind

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• It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.

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  Needs, Way, Chance

  "Trust The Man with Julianne Moore and David Duchovny". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. August 22, 2006.

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• In the general sense, there's a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it's way down. Or start at the bottom and work it's way up.

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  Journey, Way, Working It

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Re-Open The X-Files". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

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  Thinking

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson Re-Open The X-Files". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 26, 2008.

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• I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

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  Believe, People, Belief

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

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  Running, Powerful, Genius

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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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  Lying, Night, College

  Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.playboy.com. December, 1998.

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• 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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  Dad, Father, Kids

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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'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

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  Reading, Writing, Jail

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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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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  Mind, Information, Kind

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

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  People, Comedy, Enjoy

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• I drive an electric car.

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  Car, Electric, Electric Car

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• Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

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  Sex, Silly, Actors

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

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  Kind, Remember, Painful

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

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  Book, Character, Blood

  "The X-Files: I Want To Believe - David Duchovny interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.

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  Believe, Character, Play

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• Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

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  Answers, Aliens, Spaceships

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• One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

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  Play, Actors, Television

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• My whole life, Ive 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.

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  Jobs, Missing, Next

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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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  Mean, Games, People

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