David Duchovny

Actor

1960-08-07

Quotes by David Duchovny

• I think Polanski's an amazing director.

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• In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

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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'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

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• I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

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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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• I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

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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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• I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

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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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• I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.

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• I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

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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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• 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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• Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

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