Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

Scully, what do you know about the Philadelphia Experiment?

Scully

It was a program during World War II, to render battleships invisible to radar.

Mulder

On July 8, 1944, the USS Eldridge did more than just hide from radar screens. It vanished from the Philadelphia Navy Yard... Only to reappear minutes later, hundred of miles away in Norfolk, Virgina.

Mulder

Tell me, have you done much circus work in your life?

And what makes you think I've ever spectated a circus? Much less been enslaved by one?

Mulder

I know that many of the citizens here are former circus hands, and I just thought that...

You thought that because I am a person of short stature, that the only career I could procure for myself would be one confined to the so-called 'Big Top'. You took one quick look at me, and decided that you could deduce my entire life. Never would it have occurred to you that a person of my height could have possibly obtained a degree in Hotel Management.

Mulder

I'm sorry. I meant no offence.

Well then why should I take offence? Just because it's human nature to make instantaneous judgements of others based solely upon their physical appearances? Why I've done the same thing to you, for example. I've taken in your all-American features, your dour demeanour, your unimaginative necktie design, and concluded that you work for the government; an FBI agent... but do you see the tragedy here? I have mistakenly deduced you to a stereotype. A caricature, instead of regarding you as a specific, unique individual.

Mulder

But I am an FBI agent.

Mr. Nut, the kind-hearted manager here, convinced me that to make a living by publicly displaying my deformity lacked dignity. So... now I carry other people's luggage. I believe these are your trailers; if they are not... then I am wrong.

Oh, that's most considerate. Thank you very much.

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite. No, no, that's... that's not what I meant... I... I didn't mean to imply that we had bedbugs... I... I meant to say don't let... don't let the...

Mulder

The 'Fiji Mermaids' bite?

Yes, that's right... The 'Fiji Mermaids'...

Mulder

Have you ever performed this... act on anyone else?

Dr. Blockhead

What, are you sick? I tell my audiences that if they're stupid enough to try this on themselves they'll end up with a slight lobotomy. I am a professional.

Mulder

Exactly how does one become a professional blockhead?

[to Scully] Are you sure it was the brother you saw? Maybe it was the Fiji Mermaid who jumped in the sea and swam back to Fiji.

Mulder

[to Scully] Now you know how I feel.

Mulder

Have you ever performed this... act on anyone else?

Dr. Blockhead

What, are you sick? I tell my audiences that if they're stupid enough to try this on themselves they'll end up with a slight lobotomy. I am a professional.

Mulder

Exactly how does one become a professional blockhead? May I?

Dr. Blockhead

Starting in my homeland of Yemen, I trained with yogis, fakirs, and swamis, learning the ancient arts of body manipulation. But most men know nothing of these arts. For instance, did you know that through the protective Chinese practice of Tieu Bhu Xian, you can train your testicles to draw up into your abdomen?

Mulder

Oh, I'm doing that as we speak.

Mulder

See, this is a helium balloon here and the one thing I did learn in kindergarten is when you let them go they float up, up and away, but see this is moving away from him. Horizontally.

Scully

Did you learn about wind in kindergarten?

Skinner

For every step you take they're three steps ahead.

Mulder

What about you, where do you stand?

Skinner

I stand right on the line you keep crossing.

Scully

According to the briefing, the prisoners escaped while hiding in a laundry cart.

Mulder

I don't think the guards have been watching enough prison movies.

Mulder

You can't protect the public by lying to them.

The Cigarette-Smoking Man

It's done every day.

Scully

There's no sign of him, Mulder. Maybe he's moved on. What are you looking at?

Mulder

On the videotape, Dr. Banton kept staring at the floor. I've been trying to figure out what he might have been looking at.

Scully

Well, maybe the exposure affected his mind. Nonsensical repetitive behavior is a common trait of mental illness.

Mulder

You trying to tell me something?

Mulder

He believes the government is out to get him.

It's tax season - so do most Americans.

Frohike

I don't think we've been followed.

Mulder

Who would follow you?

Byers

Multinational black ops unit. Code name Garnett.

Langly

Trained killers. School of the American Alumni.

Mulder

Have you boys been defacing library books again?

Scully

I went to your father's funeral. I told your mother that you were going to be okay.

Mulder

How did you know?

Scully

I just knew.

Scully

I need something to put my back up against, Mulder.

Mulder

I know. I feel the same way. I feel that we've lost so much... but we've got The X-Files, and I believe what we're looking for is in them. I'm more certain than ever the truth is out there, Scully.

Scully

I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers.