Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Mulder

How many dishes do you have to break before your boss tosses you in an oven?

Mulder

Scully. (She stops walking and turns around. He smiles.) I never saw you as a mother before.

Mulder

[v.o.] At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, and tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago. And in that act a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so... Instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely, but scattered, wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories, as now, when seems, once more, the goal in sight again.

Mulder

The truth is... Nobody cares.

Mulder

Will the real Leonard Betts please stand up.

Mulder

(Scully wants a desk; Mulder is trying to figure out how to fit it in their tiny shared office) We'll put 'em really close together, face to face... maybe we could play some BATTLESHIP!

Mulder

(Explaining how he knew where to find Scully) I checked where we always stay in Philadelphia. I was sure you wouldn't abandon me.

Mulder

(Making fun of Scully's new tattoo) I was thinking of having an NY tattooed on my ass to commemorate the Yankees' World Series victory.

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(To Scully) Congrats on making a personal appearance in the X-Files for the second time!

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The truth will save you, Scully. I think it'll save both of us.

Mulder

Nine minutes, Scully. Do you remember the last time you were missing nine minutes?

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These men are trained to identify moving parts. Hydraulics, electronics. They're trained to reconstruct those parts and the past and arrive at the present. But they can't do that because somebody has stolen the past from them. Nine minutes of it. Nine minutes that became a lifetime for those passengers, and now for their families. Someone has got to figure out what happened in those nine minutes. Somehow, we've got to get them back.

Mulder

Does your policy cover the acts of extraterrestrials?

Mulder

(About to scuba dive to the bottom of a lake) Once, I got a quarter off the deep end at the Y pool!

Mulder

More people are trying to get their hands on this than a Tickle-Me-Elmo doll.