David Duchovny quotes

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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. View quote
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I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (David Duchovny)
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. View quote
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In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. View quote
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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. View quote
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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. View quote
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On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. View quote
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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. View quote
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts. View quote
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