Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Scully

We all have a natural instinct to propagate.

Mulder

Do we?

Scully

I think the way it goes here is that Edmund is both the father and brother of the other two.

Mulder

Does that mean that when Edmund was a kid, he got to ground his brothers for playing with his things?

Scully

Don't worry, Mulder. In time, we'll catch them.

Mulder

I think time already caught them, Scully.

Krycek

(slams on door, panting) We gotta get outta here. They’re gonna torture us.

Mulder

How do you know?

Krycek

They questioned me. Trying to get me to confess.

Mulder

To what?

Krycek

To being a spy.

Mulder

(Pins Krycek against the cell wall) What did you tell them?

Krycek

That we were stupid Americans, lost in the woods. Mulder, you’re gonna need me in here. (Mulder lets go of Krycek) ..Don’t touch me again.

Scully

Don't you think the car might've been searched at least once already?

Mulder

Not by me.

Scully

What are we doing here, Mulder?

Mulder

Did I mention that Mr Betts had no head?

Mulder

You check out how he died, I wanna see how he lives.

Scully

(Correcting him) Lived.

Mulder

Lived.

Mulder

I refuse to believe that.

Scully

For all the times that I've said that to you, I am as certain about this as you have ever been.

Mulder

(sarcastically) I didn't know it was your birthday, Scully.

Scully

Mulder, ... you have never remembered my birthday in the four years I've known you.

Mulder

That's the way I like to celebrate them ... It's every four years, it's like dog years that way.

Scully

Dog years? Thank you.

Mulder

I am hesitant to speculate.

Scully

(rolls eyes)

Scully

What are these people dying for? Is it for the truth or for the lies?

Mulder

It's got to be for the truth. If we owe them anything, it's to make sure of that.

Mulder

(looking through Max's trailer) Remember this place?

Scully

I remember being amazed at what some people will call home.

Mulder

You have to admit, the man had an enduring sense of style.

Scully

Only Max Fenig and you would appreciate living like this. (Mulder chuckles. She presses play on the stereo. "Unmarked Helicopters" by Soul Coughing plays. She turns it off.) I think you were actually kindred spirits in some deep, strange way.

Mulder

What do you mean?

Scully

Men with Spartan lives, simple in their creature comforts, and willing to allow for the complexity of their passions.

Do you know what happens when a plane suddenly depressurizes at thirty-thousand feet, Mister Mulder? After the cabin fills with fog and all light objects, anything not tied down... (Mulder sighs.) ...and including your weapon, go flying toward the breach?

Mulder

A pretty lady comes around with honey-roasted peanuts?

Skinner

Is this man on the plane?

Mulder

I think he got the connecting flight.

Scully

I, uh... actually, I was thinking about the- this gift that you gave me for my birthday. (takes out the Apollo 11 pendant/keychain and looks at it) You never got to tell me why you gave it to me or what it means. But I think I know. I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals. That what can be imagined can be achieved. That you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work. And teamwork, because no one gets there alone. And while we commemorate the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieved them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

Mulder

...I just thought it was a pretty cool keychain.