David Duchovny quotes

David Duchovny is an American actor, writer, and producer, widely recognized for his roles in television and film. Best known for portraying FBI agent Fox Mulder in "The X-Files" and for starring in "Californication," his career has earned him critical acclaim and several awards. He continues to be an influential figure in the entertainment industry. Here are 87 of his quotes:

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.

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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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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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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

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In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

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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.

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

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

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