The X Files Quotes

Mulder: I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.
Dr. Werber: Do you know why?
Mulder: Because of the voice... The voice in my head.
Dr. Werber: What's it telling you?
Mulder: Not to be afraid. It's telling me that no harm will come to her and that one day she'll return.
Dr. Werber: Do you believe the voice?
Mulder: I want to believe.

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Scully: Mulder, it's the same story I've heard since I was a kid. It's a folk tale, a myth.
Mulder: I heard the same story when I was a kid too. Funny thing is I believed it. Fact is we've got a cannibalised body in New Jersey. Someone or something out there is hungry.

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Ellen: What about that guy you work with?
Scully: Mulder?
Ellen: I thought you said he was cute.
Scully: He's a jerk. He's not a jerk. He's, um... he's obsessed with his work.

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Mulder: What if it is a female, Scully? How close is she to you or me? Does she feel emotion? Or are her days just spent looking for food?
Scully: Maybe, she spends her day shopping.
Mulder: Eight million years out of Africa, I don't think we're all that different.
Scully: Mulder, we've put men into space, we've built computers that work faster than the human mind.
Mulder: While we over-populate the world and create new technologies to kill each other with. Maybe we're just beasts with big brains.

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Mulder: Who was that on the phone?
Scully: A guy.
Mulder: A guy. Same guy as the guy you had dinner with the other night?
Scully: Same guy.
Mulder: You going to have dinner with him again?
Scully: I don't think so.
Mulder: No interest?
Scully: Not at this time.
Mulder: [walking to the door] What are you doing?
Scully: Going with you to the Smithsonian.
Mulder: Don't you have a life, Scully?
Scully: Keep it up, Mulder, and I'll hurt you like that beast woman.
Mulder: Eight million years out of Africa...
Scully: [holding door open for him] And look who's holding the door.

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Scully: I think Howard Graves faked his own death.
Mulder: Do you know how hard it is to fake your own death? Only one man has pulled it off: Elvis.

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Mulder: I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation.

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Scully: Are you saying Lauren Kyte crashed our car?
Mulder: Either that or a poltergeist.
Scully: They're heeeere...

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Scully: How can the oesophagus be crushed without the neck even being touched?
Mulder: Psychokinetic manipulation.
Scully: Psychokinesis? You mean how Carrie got even at the prom?

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Mulder: Hey, Scully. Do you believe in the afterlife?
Scully: I'd settle for a life in this one.
Mulder: Have you ever seen the Liberty Bell?
Scully: Yes.
Mulder: You know, I've been to Philadelphia a hundred times and I've never seen it.
Scully: You're not missing much. It's just a big bell with a big crack, and you have to wait in a long line.
Mulder: Yeah, but I'd really like to go.
Scully: Why now?
Mulder: I don't know. How late do you think they stay open?

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Scully: How come you two went your separate ways?
Mulder: I’m a pain in the ass to work with.
Scully: Seriously.
Mulder: I’m not a pain in the ass?

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Scully: Must be for the visually impaired.
Mulder: How do you like that? A politically correct elevator.

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Scully: Brad Wilczek? We're with the FBI.
Brad Wilczek: What took you guys so long? Oh, and do you mind taking off your shoes.

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Mulder: [taking his shirt off] Before anyone passes judgment, may I remind you - we are in the arctic.

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Mulder: It's still there, Scully, two hundred thousand years down in the ice.
Scully: Leave it there.

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Mulder: You never wanted to be an astronaut when you were a kid, Scully?
Scully: Guess I missed that phase.

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Mulder: [about seeing a shuttle launch from the control room] I have to admit, that fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies.
Scully: Yeah, it ranks right up there with getting a pony and learning how to braid my own hair.

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Mulder: Then what can I say? How can I disprove lies that are stamped with an official seal?
Section Chief McGrath: That will be all, Mr Mulder?
Mulder: You can deny all the things I've seen, all the things I've discovered, but not for much longer because too many others know what's happening out there. And no one, no government agency, has jurisdiction over the truth.

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Scully: Mulder, the hearing is tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
Mulder: So that gives us 24 hours to investigate.
Scully: My assignment is to bring you back, not help you dig yourself in deeper.
Mulder: "The Last Detail" starring Dana Scully.

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Mulder: You really believe that story?
Scully: That story happens to be highly classified.
Mulder: It's a highly classified lie.

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Scully: Death by hypovolaemia. 75% blood loss. That's over 4 liters of blood.
Mulder: I'd say the man was running on empty.

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Mulder: One girl was just abducted.
Scully: Kidnapped.
Mulder: Potato, potahto.

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Scully: Mulder, you're rushing me out of the room.
Mulder: No, I'm not.
Scully: You've got a girl coming over?
Mulder: What's a girl? No, I have... there's a movie I want to watch on TV. Sleep tight. See you in the morning.

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Eve 10: Hello, Eve 8.
Eve 9: We've been waiting ...
Eve 8: How did you know I'd come for you ?
Eve 10: We just knew.
Eve 9: We just knew.

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Mulder: Ten years it's taken me to forget about this woman and she shows up in my life with a case like this.
Scully: So she shows up knowing the power she has over you and then she makes you walk through fire, is that it?
Mulder: Phoebe is fire.

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Mulder: Well, that's one of the luxuries of hunting down aliens and genetic mutants. You rarely get to press charges.

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Cecil L'Ively: [To Mulder] Time to call 911? [clicks fingers, causing the corridor to bust into flames]

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Mulder: It was five hours of Boggs channeling. After three hours i asked him to summon up the soul of Jimi Hendrix and requested 'All Along the Watchtower'. You know, the guy's been dead for 20 years but he hasn't lost his touch.

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Scully: Good sailing, Ahab.
Captain William Scully: Good night, Starbuck.

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Scully: You set us up. You’re in on this with Lucas Henry. This was a trap for Mulder because he helped put you away. Well, I came here to tell you that if he dies because of what you’ve done, four days from now, no one will be able to stop me from being the one that will throw the switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of a bitch!

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