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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.
David Duchovny
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David Duchovny
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 7
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David William Duchovny
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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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I'm the one usually wearing the dress, which is what I would've preferred, but they wouldn't let me. It's been 15 years since I did that and my ass isn't as good as it used to be.
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I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.
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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
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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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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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Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.
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I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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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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A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.
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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 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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Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?
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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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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
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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 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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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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Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.
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