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“I had a very good feeling that this show would be successful. But I don’t think it’s really even hit me yet. Once in a while I’ll be driving down the street in Canada and think, ‘I’m in Canada. How did I get here?’”

GA, AP, Feb 1994

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“I came in when I was 24, and I’m going to be 30 this year. Those are formidable years in a person’s life. A lot has transpired over a seemingly short period of time. And I think that as a result of having to basically deal with everything in the moment — because of the constraints of work — I have been forced into this Petri dish of learning where I have had to move forward constantly. Because there’s no room to move backwards. No room whatsoever.”

GA, Vancouver Sun, April 1998

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“You’ll like being colonized … you will be happy … put your faith in me and withdraw it from Mulder.”

William B. Davis,
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David Duchovny is feeling a little, well, alienated.

If the co-star of The X-Files were searching for a literary analogy to describe the past six months of his life, he might choose Rudyard Kipling — the line about keeping your head while all about you are losing theirs.

“I don’t take it seriously,” he says, referring to the glare of public attention, “except with how it interferes with my life.”

on the rain fiasco, Vancouver Sun, Feb 1998

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The very polite Canadians who recognize her from the show, which airs there, tend to keep their distance, Anderson says. But even discreet recognition can be unnerving to a fledgling TV star.

“There is something vulnerable about being in the public eye, to a certain degree,” she says. “Having that feeling, hearing ‘Scully’ whispered as you pass people. It reminds you constantly that you’re not in your private little world.”

AP, Feb 1994

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Trained in the theater, she stepped before a camera for only the third time when she filmed “The X-Files” pilot episode. “Let me tell you about tension and stress,” Anderson recalls. “I was a mess. It’s taken me a while, and I’m still learning every single day I work.”

The show’s long work hours and location also have conspired to keep the 25-year-old from feeling the full impact of jumping from TV unknown to series lead. “I’m not out much,” Anderson says. “I work and I go home. I work on the scripts. I wake up and come to work. And in between I try to get my bills paid.”

AP, Feb 1994

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“I don’t know if Mulder should develop. I mean, Mulder’s Mulder. And that’s one of the things that I learned fighting for the last three or four years on the show, trying to change the guy, or give him a French accent one day.

“That’s the nature of the character and what I eventually learned to love about him, is he’s set, and he’s a great character. So, the great thing about Mulder is we know what he’s going to do, and we know what he likes, and we know what he loves, and we know what he hates.”

DD, ‘Connie & Carla’ press conference, 2004

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“I think you know it [if there’s chemistry]— it’s like when you feel it, or when you’re working with the person, you know if you have it…

“It’s like a playfulness more than anything else. It’s not about sex, or anything like that — it’s really about two performers who kind of get into each other’s rhythms, and that’s sexy in a way, cause you’re saying, ‘okay, I’m going to play with you on this level,’ and I think that’s what chemistry is. Or it can be people that really don’t like each other, and they have chemistry, so it’s an odd thing.”

David Duchovny, press conference, 2004

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You’ve said, “Vancouver is one of my favorite places.”
DUCHOVNY: Vancouver is one of my favorite places. Unfortunately, yeah, no one believes.

Deadbolt, July 2008

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