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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:

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.

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Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

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

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The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

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

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I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

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You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

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I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

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I drive an electric car.

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Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

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One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

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In high school and college, I was an athlete.

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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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Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

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Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

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

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In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

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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.

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My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

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I don't make decisions based on money.

David Duchovny

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

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