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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

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David Duchovny
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 7
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
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New York City
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David William Duchovny
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I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him.
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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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We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.
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Maybe with Californication the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.
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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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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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A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
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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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I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
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Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.
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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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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
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I reread Ball Four by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like Out of Their League by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.
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Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.
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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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I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.
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TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.
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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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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.
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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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