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David Duchovny Biography

David William Duchovny /dʊˈkʌvni/ (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards.

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As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself.

Certain, Character, Forefront, Fun, Mean, Recede

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

Considered, Humility, Masculine, Quality

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!

Caring, Independent, Mulder, People, Quality, Quest

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

Daughter, Know, Like, Mother, Years

Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.

Certain, Feelings, Hurt, People, Repression, Sexually

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

Actors, People, Things, Watch, Watches, Work

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.

Adult, Dad, Father, Kids, Realize

There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate enough to be able to throw some chords together and write songs, but I can only feel that because I'm expressing something honestly, or in a heartfelt way, or in some way that's not bullshit, that in some way the songs have merit.

Adequate, Enough, Musician, People, Song, Writing

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.

Games, Mean, People, Playing, Say, Tell

You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Creator, Kinda, Line, Lines, Owners, Points

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.

Actor, Actors, Television, Think, Thinking

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

Character, Identify, Instinctively, Know, Knows

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.

Fashion, Men, Sexy, Shoes, Subtle, Tight

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

Dread, Kind, Painful, Remember

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

Encounters, Informative, Insightful, Interviews, Intrusive, Larry

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

Needs, Phone, Phones, Play, Thing

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Book, Humble, Know, Smart, Twice

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Honor, Marriage, Responsibility

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. '

Deserve, Good, I Love You, Jobs, Think, Thinking

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Basketball, Believed, Dream, Dreamt, Inspirational

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