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David Duchovny, born on August 7, 1960, is an accomplished actor from the United States. He gained widespread recognition for his role as Fox Mulder in the television series 'The X-Files', which made him one of the most iconic television stars of the 1990s. Beyond his acting career, Duchovny has also ventured into writing, publishing two novels.

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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.”

Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Lying Night College Bed Warm Best Ever

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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.”

Thinking Should Ideas Facts Ocean Swim Should I Ruined Resent Sharks

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“I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.”

Ifs Thinking Past Function Impact Best Things Things To Do Truthful

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“I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.”

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“If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Long Might Gay Lists Woody

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“If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.”

Ifs Thinking Picks Ice Foxes Larry

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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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“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.”

People Thinking Years Interesting Havens Changed Weight Obscene Matured

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“I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.”

Thinking Baths Tubs

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“I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Said Poet Lucky Exposed Hardy Great Poet Squash Auden

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“I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.”

Thinking Way Made Speak Language Novel Listening Trump Beckett

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“I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.”

Thinking Years Stills Bigs America Past Novel Happened Fans 1960s Great American Philip

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“I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.”

Thinking World Different Kids Reading Enjoy Attention Competitors Imaginative Different Worlds

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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.”

Thinking Wanted Interesting Heard Damn Privacy Snoring

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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.'”

Thinking Way Said I Can Jobs Can Do Love You Directors Deserve Scripts Honestly My Way I Love You Turned Down Deserve Better

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“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”

Thinking Wish Skills Patience

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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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“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.”

People Thinking Feels Whole Hands Kids Instinct Envy Whole Life

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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 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.”

Thinking Want Humans Mean Wonderful Human Nature

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“I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.”

Thinking Inspirational Real Kids Teacher Mom My Mom My Sister Heroic

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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. They want you to tell about what you saw.”

People Thinking Want Humans Country Worry Saws Land Like You Sickness Other Countries Traveled Sickness And Death

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“Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'”

Thinking Persons Like Me

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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.”

Thinking Film Actors Television Tvs Broadway And Off

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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.”

People Thinking Giving Mean Children Feelings Kids Special Treats Shelter

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“I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.”

Thinking Animal

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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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“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.”

People Thinking Want Needs Believe Stills Miracle Mars Hale Nike

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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.”

Thinking Two Sometimes Stuff Red Charity Someday Swimming Display Donate Plums Auctions Maybe Someday Smithsonian Speedos

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About the Author

Born: August 7, 1960
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 163

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