The X-Files (film) Quotes

The X-Files (film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . The X-Files ended in 1970.

It features Chris Carter; Daniel Sackheim as producer, Mark Snow in charge of musical score, and Ward Russell as head of cinematography.

The X-Files (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The X-Files (film) is 121 minutes long. The X-Files (film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully, David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder, John Neville as Well-Manicured Man, Armin Mueller-Stahl as Conrad Strughold, Jeffrey DeMunn as Ben Bronschweig, M.D., Gary Grubbs as Fire Captain Miles Cooles, and Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner.

The X-Files (film) Quotes

Jeffrey DeMunn as Ben Bronschweig, M.D.

• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "We brought the atmosphere back down to freezing in order to control the development of this latest Purity strain -- which is nothing like we've ever seen before."
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "Brought on by what?"
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "Heat, I think. The subsequent invasion of a host, the fireman here, in an enviroment that raised his body temperate above 98.6 degrees."
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "This man is still alive."
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "Technicaly and biologicaly -- yes. But he'll never recover."
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "How is this possible?"
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "Look --"
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "The developing organism is using his life energy. Digesting bone and tissue for itself to grow. We've just slowed the process."
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "You want us to destroy this one too before it jestates?"
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "Uh -- no. Not yet. We need to try our vacine on it. We need to see if it will work in this advanced state."
• (Jeffrey DeMunn) "And if it's unsucessfull?"
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "Burn it -- like the others."

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

• (Gillian Anderson) "Are you drunk, Mulder?"
• (David Duchovny) "I was until about 20 minutes ago."
• (Gillian Anderson) "Was that before or after you decided to come here?"

• (Gillian Anderson) "I need this building evacuated and cleared out in ten minutes. I need you to get on the phone and tell the fire department to block off the city center in a one mile radius around the building. DON'T THINK. JUST PICK UP THE PHONE AND MAKE IT HAPPEN."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Mulder, I can't tell you what killed this man. I'm not sure if anybody else can, either."

• (Gillian Anderson) "I saw your face, Mulder. There was a definite moment of panic."
• (David Duchovny) "You've never seen me panic. When I panic, I make this face."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Any thoughts as to why anybody would be growing corn in the middle of the desert?"
• (David Duchovny) "Those could be giant Jiffy-Pop poppers."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Here I am in the middle of nowhere, Texas, chasing phantom tanker trucks."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Mulder what are you doing?"
• (David Duchovny) "Something's wrong."
• (Gillian Anderson) "Mulder."
• (David Duchovny) "Something's not right."
• (Gillian Anderson) "Mulder get in the car. THERE'S NO TIME."

• (Gillian Anderson) "I don't believe the FBI currently has an investigative unit qualified to pursue the evidence in hand."

• (Gillian Anderson) "I had you."
• (David Duchovny) "No, you didn't."
• (Gillian Anderson) "Oh, yeah. I had you big time."

Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner

• (Mitch Pileggi) "Agent Mulder, you and I both know that if it looks bad, it's bad for the FBI. Blame has to be assigned somewhere."

John Neville as Well-Manicured Man

• (John Neville) "You have precious little time, Agent Mulder. What I have given you to save Agent Scully, the alien colonists living amongst us do not yet know exists. It's introduction into an alien environment may have the capability to destroy all the delicate plans to fight the alien re-colonization of Earth that we have so delicately protected for the last 50 years."
• (David Duchovny) "What do you mean "may have"?"
• (John Neville) "Find Agent Scully. Only then you will know the grand scope of things."

• (John Neville) "Survival is the ultimate ideology."

• (John Neville) "Trust no one, Mr. Mulder."

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

• (David Duchovny) "I think they went left."
• (Gillian Anderson) "I don't know why, I think they went right."
• (David Duchovny) "Five years together, Scully. How many times have I been wrong? Never."
• (David Duchovny) "Not driving, anyway."

• (David Duchovny) "Maybe we should call in a bomb threat to Houston. I think it's free beer night at the Astrodome."

• (David Duchovny) "What's this?"
• (John Neville) "A weak vaccine against the virus Agent Scully has been infected with. It must be administrated within 96 hours after first contact or she will be beyond saving."
• (David Duchovny) "A virus?"
• (John Neville) "What is a virus, Mr. Mulder? A rare certain strain of Purity that has been lying dormant in a cave in Texas since the end of the last great Ice Age waiting to be unleashed upon this world?"
• (David Duchovny) "Is this what you and your consortium have been covering up all this time? A virus? A disease?"
• (John Neville) "No, no, no, you've got it all backwards. AIDS, the Ebola virus, the common cold -- on an evolutionary scale they are newborns. This virus walked the Earth long before the first dinosaurs appeared."
• (David Duchovny) "What do you mean "walked"?"
• (John Neville) "Your aliens, Agent Mulder, your little green men arrived here millions of years ago."

• (David Duchovny) "Is this Dr. Kurzweil's residence?"
• (D.C. Cop #1) "You got some business with him?"
• (David Duchovny) "I'm looking for him."
• (D.C. Cop #1) "Looking for him for what?"
• (D.C. Cop #1) "Hey, the Feds are looking for him, too. Real nice business he's got, huh?"
• (David Duchovny) "What's that?"
• (D.C. Cop #1) "Selling naked pictures of little kids over his computer. You looking for him for some other reason?"
• (David Duchovny) "Yeah, I had an appointment for a pelvic examination."

• (David Duchovny) "What do you want? Coke, Pepsi, saline IV?"

• (David Duchovny) "Remember that face I showed you, Scully? I'm making it again."

• (David Duchovny) "How many times have we been here before, Scully? Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and what we know to be right back at the beginning with nothing."
• (Gillian Anderson) "This is different, Mulder."
• (David Duchovny) "No, it isn't. You were right to want to quit. You were right to want to leave me. You should get as far away from me as you can. I'm not gonna watch you die, Scully, because of some hallow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can."
• (Gillian Anderson) "I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, it has a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?"
• (Gillian Anderson) "Look -- if I quit now, they win."

• (David Duchovny) "You know, one is the loneliest number."

• (David Duchovny) "After all you've seen, you can just walk away?"
• (Gillian Anderson) "I have. I did. It's done."

• (David Duchovny) "You told me you had answers."
• (Alvin Kurtzweil, MD) "Yes, but I don't have them all."

• (David Duchovny) "You wanna tell yourself that so you can quit with a clear conscience, you can, but you're wrong."
• (Gillian Anderson) "Why did they assign me to you in the first place, Mulder? To debunk your work, to rein you in, to shut you down --"
• (David Duchovny) "But you saved me. As difficult and as frustrating as it's been sometimes, your god****ed strict rationalism and science have saved me a thousand times over. You've kept me honest. You've made me a whole person. I owe you everything -- Scully, and you owe me nothing. I don't know if I wanna do this alone. I don't even know if I can. And if I quit now, they win."

• (David Duchovny) "Thirteen fifty-four. Thirteen fifty-two. Thirteen fifty. You see a pattern emerging here, Scully?"

• (David Duchovny) "Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced."
• (David Duchovny) "What are we doing up here, Scully? It's hotter than hell."

Gary Grubbs as Fire Captain Miles Cooles

• (Gary Grubbs) "What about my men. What about my men."

Armin Mueller-Stahl as Conrad Strughold

• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "Oh, you look hot and miserable. Why have you traveled all this way?"
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "We have business to discuss."
• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "You have regular channels."
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "This involves Mulder."
• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "Ah, that name. Again and again."
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "He's seen more than he should."
• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "What has he seen? Of the whole, he has seen but pieces."
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "He's determined now, reinvested."
• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "He's but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future."
• (Cigarette Smoking Man) "Yesterday, I received this."
• (Armin Mueller-Stahl) "Oh --"

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