David Duchovny
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"David William Duchovny" is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the science fiction on television/science fiction Horror fiction/horror Dramatic programming/drama series The X-Files and the Alcoholism/alcoholic, drug-abusing, Promiscuity#Male promiscuity/womanizing novelist Hank Moody on the comedy-drama television series Californication (TV series)/Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. He has appeared in the two X-Files films, the science fiction-thriller The X-Files (film)/The X-Files (1998) and the supernatural fiction-thriller The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).

He has a B.A. in English Literature from Princeton University and a Master of Arts (postgraduate)/M.A. in English Literature from Yale University.

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We really have to reconsider what it is that a public person gives up. Why does a public person give up all his or her rights to privacy?

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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.

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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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I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

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No sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking there's more than that between us amuses me. With Gillian, we've created the illusion of romance.

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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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Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, that person, if she is smart and Gillian is smart shouldn't want to meet the other person after hours. That's also true for the other way round.

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