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I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

David Duchovny

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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
Television Director
Television Producer
Writer
New York City
New York
David William Duchovny
Scottish
Jewish
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Anything
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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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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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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
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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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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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I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of The Unnamable. Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.
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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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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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I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.
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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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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.
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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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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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Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.
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I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.
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