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People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

David Duchovny

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David Duchovny
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 7
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Television Actor
Television Director
Television Producer
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New York City
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David William Duchovny
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If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
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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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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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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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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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When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like Winners Never Quit by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.
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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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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
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I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.
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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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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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A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
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As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.
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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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I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.
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