Top 100 David Duchovny Sayings
#1. David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind ... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.
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#2. David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'
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#3. As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself.
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#4. I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.
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#5. Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.
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#6. 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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#7. Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'
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#8. I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
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#9. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
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#10. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.
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#16. 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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#17. I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
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#18. Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.
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#19. 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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#20. It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
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#24. I look back the old old ones [X-Files series], from the beginning, and I'm kind of mortified by my acting! But I'm kind of impressed by my enthusiasm. I'm just thankful that I got to become better at what I did, and that we didn't get cancelled in the first year.
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#25. Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.
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#26. If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.
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#27. I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.
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#28. I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
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#29. Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.
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#30. It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.
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#31. I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.
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#32. I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
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#33. Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.
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#35. You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
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#37. I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.
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#38. People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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#39. 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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#40. Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.
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#41. 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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#42. A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
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#43. It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and ... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?
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#45. If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
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#46. I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.
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#47. Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
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#48. 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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#50. I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
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#51. 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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#52. I really like gratuitous nudity. I hate when people go, 'I'll only do it if it makes sense for the movie'. It never makes sense. So I like it - the more gratuitous the better.
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#54. 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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#55. Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.
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#56. 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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#57. If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him ... but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.
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#58. I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
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#59. Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.
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#60. You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.
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#61. 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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#62. Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
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#63. 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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#64. You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.
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#65. I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
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#66. When Ted opened the door to find Mariana there, his first thought was, "I don't know what I'm wearing." And he didn't look down; he had a bad feeling and didn't want to face it, he kept his eyes on the girl, who said, "Hello, Theodore.
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#67. 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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#70. 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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#71. I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.
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#73. 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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#74. Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck.
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#79. Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.
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#80. It's hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It's hard to leave anywhere at all.
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#81. I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.
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#82. My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
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#83. I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.
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#84. Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
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#85. 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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#86. In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
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#87. I poop in the backyard ... I wear disposable diapers.
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#88. What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.
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#89. If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
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#90. 'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.
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#91. 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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#92. This is my religion - we're all animals, perfect animals created in the infinite image and imagination of nature. It's a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.
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#93. In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
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#94. Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
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#95. I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.
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#96. I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
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#97. Garry Shandling is someone I've publicly gone gay for, for jokes. Oh and anyone in the Twilight movies. I don't know any of their names, but all of them. The wolves, the vampires? They're all fantastic.
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#98. I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.
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#99. 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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