The X-Files (season 1) Quotes

The X-Files is a TV show that first aired in 1993 on Fox Broadcasting Company. The X-Files ended in 1994.

The X-Files was on for 24 episodes.

The cast includes: Gillian Anderson as Scully, and David Duchovny as Mulder.

The X-Files Quotes

David Duchovny as Mulder

• (David Duchovny) "If coincidences are coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

• (David Duchovny) "Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity."

• (David Duchovny) "I've often felt that dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask."

• (David Duchovny) "You have to be willing to see."
• (Gillian Anderson) "I wish it were that simple."
• (David Duchovny) "Scully, you have to believe me. Nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. You're my one in five billion."

• (Mr. X) "I'm afraid I can't help you."
• (David Duchovny) "Why?"
• (Mr. X) "The last time I helped you, I bloodied my fist and revealed my identity."

• (David Duchovny) "Where is she?"

• (David Duchovny) "You know, they say when you talk to God it's prayer, but when God talks to you, it's schizophrenia."

• (Melissa Scully) "Why is it so dark in here?"
• (David Duchovny) "The lights aren't on."

• (Samantha Mulder) "Do we have to watch this, Fox?"
• (David Duchovny) "Leave it. I'm watching "The Magician" at nine."
• (Samantha Mulder) "Mom and Dad said I could watch some movie, Buttmunch."
• (David Duchovny) "They're next door at the Gallren's and they said I'm in charge."
• (David Duchovny) "Hey. Get out of my life."
• (David Duchovny) "I'm watching The Magician."
• (David Duchovny) "Now look. The fuse is blown."
• (Samantha Mulder) "Fox."
• (David Duchovny) "Samantha. Samantha."

• (David Duchovny) "Scully, you are the only one I trust."

• (David Duchovny) "Scully, I was like you once. I didn't know who to trust. Then I -- I chose another path -- another life, another fate, where I found my sister. The end of my world was unrecognizable and upside down. There was one thing that remained the same. You were my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world was falling apart, you were my constant. My touchstone."
• (Gillian Anderson) "And you are mine."

• (David Duchovny) "We've both lost so much -- but I believe that what we're looking for is in the X-Files. I'm more certain than ever that the truth is in there."
• (Gillian Anderson) "I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers."

• (David Duchovny) "Please tell me you're here with severe chest pains."

• (David Duchovny) "What can I do about a Lie with an Official Seal on it?"

• (David Duchovny) "I have a theory. Do you want to hear it?"
• (Gillian Anderson) "Van Blundht somehow physically transformed into his captor and walked out the door, leaving no one the wiser?"
• (David Duchovny) "Scully, should we be picking out china patterns or what?"

Gillian Anderson as Scully

• (Gillian Anderson) "It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."

• (Gillian Anderson) "You have seen this before, I can tell. You lied to them."
• (David Duchovny) "I would never lie. I willfully participated in a campaign of misinformation."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Stop or I'll shoot."

• (Gillian Anderson) "What if there was only one choice and all the other ones were wrong? And there were signs along the way to pay attention to."
• (David Duchovny) "Mmm. And all the choices would then lead to this very moment. One wrong turn, and we wouldn't be sitting here together. Well, that says a lot. That says a lot, a lot, a lot."

• (Gillian Anderson) "The Truth is out there, Mulder. But so are lies."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Mulder, even if --"

• (Unnamed) "Sometimes we must come full circle to find the truth. Why does that surprise you?"
• (Gillian Anderson) "Mostly, it just makes me afraid."
• (Unnamed) "Afraid?"
• (Gillian Anderson) "Afraid that God is speaking -- but that no one's listening."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Last time you were so engrossed, it turned out you were reading the "Adult Video News.""

• (Gillian Anderson) "Mulder, toads just fell from the sky."
• (David Duchovny) "I guess their parachutes didn't open."

• (Gillian Anderson) "Sure, fine, whatever."

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