Fox Mulder quotes from The X-Files

Scully

Oh my god, Mulder. It smells like... I think it's bile.

Mulder

Is there any way I can get it off my fingers quickly without betraying my cool exterior?

Scully

I just think it's a good idea not to antagonise local law enforcement.

Mulder

Who, me? I'm Mr. Congeniality.

Scully

You never know, we might need his help one of these days.

Mulder

I'll send him a bundt cake.

Mulder

Hey, that's a nice tattoo, what is that?

What's it look like?

Mulder

Flying saucer. You don't really believe in that stuff, do ya?

I take it you don't.

Mulder

No, I think it's all just a bunch of crazy people howling at the moon.

Mulder

Great.

Scully

What?

Mulder

You shouldn't have told them. They have no jurisdiction.

Scully

Mulder... They're NSA. They think the boy may be a threat to national security.

Mulder

Come on. How could an eight year old boy, who can barely multiply, be a threat to national security? And people call me paranoid.

Mulder

I know I should be afraid, but I'm not.

Do you know why?

Mulder

Because of the voice... The voice in my head.

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.

Do you believe the voice?

Mulder

I want to believe.

Scully

At least if we had a legitimate source...

Mulder

This is the essence of science. You ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer.

Mulder

She should be encouraged to tell her story, not to keep it inside, it's important that you let her.

Important to who? I have my daughter back, I don't want any more trouble. Besides she can hardly remember anything.

Mulder

But she will remember one day, one way or another, even if it's only in dreams. And when she does, she's gonna wanna talk about it, she's gonna need to talk about it.

Like I did? Listen to me, all of my life I have been ridiculed, for speaking my mind.

Mulder

But it was the truth, Darlene.

The truth has caused me nothing but heartache, I don't want the same thing for her.

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.

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.

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.

Scully

He was perfectly in his rights. The FBI has no overriding jurisdiction in a murder case. Anyway, you'd feel the same way if someone was horning in on your work.

Mulder

Yeah, chances are he's without a clue. He'll probably be scratching his head when they bring the next body in.

Scully

You missed your opening Mulder, you could've really humiliated him and er, told him who the perpetrator was, The Jersey Devil.

Mulder

Hey whatta you say, we grab a hotel, take in a floor show, drop a few quarters in the slots, do a little digging on this case.

Scully

You're kidding, right?

Mulder

OK, we can skip the floor show.

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.

Scully

Are you saying Lauren Kyte crashed our car?

Mulder

Either that or a poltergeist.

Scully

They're heeeere...

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?

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?