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47 David Duchovny Quotes & Sayings
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47 David Duchovny Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 7 August 1960 |
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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.
David Duchovny
Actually
Binding
Bondage
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
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Future
Focus
Attempt
Sounds
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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
David Duchovny
Else
Honor
Marriage
Responsibility
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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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Adult
Fear
Father
Realize
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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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Complicated
Humans
Happy
Loyal
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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.
David Duchovny
Cry
Instead
Know
People
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I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
David Duchovny
Always
Being
Dream
Believed
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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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Ability
Actor
Feel
Granted
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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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Anxiety
Creativity
Need
Out
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People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.
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Country
Death
Human
Land
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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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Close
Deal
Fame
Fear
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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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Die
Great
Kid
Mystery
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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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Celebrities
Children
Feeling
Food
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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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Actor
Around
Form
Major
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
David Duchovny
Acting
Nice
Open
People
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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.
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Nature
Time
Human
Back
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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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Humor
Acting
Often
Certain
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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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Artist
Money
Celebrity
Time
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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Always
Characters
Hurts
Love
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
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Arrogance
Mad
Makes
Pretension
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Patience
Skill
Think
Wish
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Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'
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Never
Part
Person
Taking
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I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
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Character
Identify
Instinctively
Know
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There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.
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Life
Nothing
Rich
Wrong
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Control
Mind
Want
You
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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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Failures
Feeling
Learn
Often
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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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Breathing
Cliche
Day
Down
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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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Being
Best
Celebrity
Cheating
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If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.
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Enough
Good
Never
Publicity
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You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.
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Become
Equally
Fail
Notion
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Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
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Games
Nature
Options
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I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.
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Doing
Aside
Better
Anybody
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A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
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Attached
Difficult
Directors
Films
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Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.
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Considered
Humility
Quality
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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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Picture
Compliment
Best
Way
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I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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Life
Existence
Hide
Conspiracy
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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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Figure
Huge
Loss
Privacy
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I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.
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Lie
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Animals
Love
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Art
Like
Making
People
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In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
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Internet
Media
Talkative
Access
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.
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Service
Play
Better
Harder
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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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Trying
Poem
Write
Really
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You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
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Point
Intelligent
Fashion
Articulate
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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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Snoring
Interesting
Respect
Privacy
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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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Learn
Never
Read
Smart
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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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Early
End
Know
Left
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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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Discovered
Articulate
Hard
Quick
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