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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Hurt #Feelings #Pears
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“Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.”
-- David Duchovny
#Trying #Way #Forget
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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
#Trust #Keys #People
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“There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.”
-- David Duchovny
#Acting #Moments #Be Good
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Yoga #Exercise #Breathing
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“I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.”
-- David Duchovny
#Character #Differences #Two
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Dog #Live In The Moment #Care
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Typewriters #Self #Discipline
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“I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.”
-- David Duchovny
#Inspirational #Mom #Teacher
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Swimming #Thinking #Two
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Thinking #Actors #Television
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Creativity #Creative #Anxiety
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“The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.”
-- David Duchovny
#Daughter #Mother #Moments
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“I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.”
-- David Duchovny
#Able #Lost #Virginity
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“I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.”
-- David Duchovny
#Essentials #Shelter
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“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.”
-- David Duchovny
#Hurt #Character #People
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Past #Focus #Feelings
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“I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.”
-- David Duchovny
#Basketball #Dream #Player
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“Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.”
-- David Duchovny
#Tattoo #Deserve
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“Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American.”
-- David Duchovny
#Country #Father #Eye
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“I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.”
-- David Duchovny
#Ocean #Thinking #Sharks
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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.”
-- David Duchovny
#Jobs #Missing #Next
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“Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.”
-- David Duchovny
#Dog #Animal #Kingdoms
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“I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.”
-- David Duchovny
#Showers #Enjoy
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“I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.”
-- David Duchovny
#Blood #Proud #Scottish
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“If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.”
-- David Duchovny
#Needs #Christ
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“In high school and college, I was an athlete.”
-- David Duchovny
#Athlete #School #College
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“In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.”
-- David Duchovny
#Men #Arrogant #Aggressive
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“It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.”
-- David Duchovny
#Writing #Trying #Like You
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“It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.”
-- David Duchovny
#Pages #Scripts
