David Duchovny Quotes

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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.

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  Trust, Keys, Expectations

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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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  Yoga, Exercise, Breathing

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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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  Love, Dream, Mind

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• What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!

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  Independent, Caring, People

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• The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

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  Real, Drama, People

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• People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it’s just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King’s English.

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  Kings, Stupid, Writing

  "Fictional character: Hank Moody". Californication (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2007.

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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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  Creativity, Creative, Anxiety

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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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  Dog, Live In The Moment, Care

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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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  Swimming, Thinking, Two

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• People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

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  Hurt, Character, People

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• If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

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  Giving, Silence, Suffering

  "Trust The Man with Julianne Moore and David Duchovny". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. August 22, 2006.

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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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  Typewriters, Self, Discipline

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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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  Able, Lost, Havens

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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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  Past, Focus, Feelings

  Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.playboy.com. December 1998.

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• What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

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  Air, Mad, Arrogance

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• I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

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  Guitar, May, Able

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• I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

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  Nike, Believe, Thinking

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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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  Hurt, Feelings, Pears

  David Duchovny (2015). “Holy Cow: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

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  Real, Poop, Backyards

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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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  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Dollars

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• Every time Mulder smiles, people say, 'God, it was great to see you smile. Mulder never smiles.' I say, 'Mulder smiles a whole lot. He smiles at least once a show.' People get these ideas in their heads and they're impossible to shake. But, to be honest with you, Mulder is every bit as vulnerable and quirky as Ally McBeal. I think Mulder has pretty good legs, too.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

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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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  Thinking, Years, People

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson talk The X-Files revival". Interview with John Nugent, www.empireonline.com. January 13, 2016.

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• There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

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  Mother, Two, Updates

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• I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

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  Believe, Conspiracy, Existence

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• I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

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  I Love You, Jobs, Thinking

  "David Duchovny Talks GOATS, CALIFORNICATION, Working in TV Versus Film and Possible Future THE X-FILES Movies". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 11, 2012.

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