Fox Mulder

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David Duchovny
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Fox Mulder Quotes

	Season 8 / Episode 16: - Three Words Fox Mulder: Just remember boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes it doesn't mean you win.
	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Hollywood A.D. Garry Shandling: Do you dress on the right or the left? Fox Mulder: Wh... huh... what do you... Garry Shandling: Look, I play a character, I need to find his rudder, his center... Fox Mulder: I guess mostly to the left. Garry Shandling: Mostly? Fox Mulder: Most of the time. Garry Shandling: Wardrobe!
	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Hollywood A.D. Chuck Burks: Looks like your underground hero went from counterculture to counterfeiter. Fox Mulder: One more pun and I pull out my gun.
	Season 7 / Episode 13: - First Person Shooter Fox Mulder: [to the Lone Gunmen] If I were you guys, right now I'd be checking my shorts for cake.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Biogenesis (1) Dana Scully: Well, Mulder, if it were real then why would an American Indian artifact be fused in rock on the west coast of the African continent? Fox Mulder: In 1996, a rock from Mars was found in Antarctica. How did it get there? Dana Scully: It was from outer space. Fox Mulder: [Mulder smiles and does an exaggerated shrug]
	Season 6 / Episode 14: - Monday Fox Mulder: Cover for me, will you? Dana Scully: When have I not?
	Season 6 / Episode 9: - S.R. 819 Uniformed Cop: I'm not so sure you should be doing that. Fox Mulder: [Flipping through documents on Dr. Orgel's desk] This is a crime scene. What would you rather I be doing? Uniformed Cop: Uh, it's just that I'm concerned for Dr. Orgel's personal property and the preservation of evidence. Fox Mulder: I would be a lot more concerned with the preservation of Dr. Orgel.
	Season 5 / Episode 20: - The End Fox Mulder: You know, when I first met you I figured you were just ambitious. Then this morning my opinion changed and I thought you were arrogant. Now I'm beginning to wonder what you're protecting. FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Spender: I'm just trying to run this thing right. Not like some ridiculous, paranormal free-for-all. Fox Mulder: You're insulting me when you should be taking notes. Somehow you got the big assignment, but just because you're wearing the suit doesn't mean it fits. You're lucky you're not busy diffusing an international incident, kissing some serious Russian ass and sending a whole lot of agents barking down a whole lot of bad leads. Now the kid is the key to this. And the shooter knows why. Excuse me.
	Season 5 / Episode 17: - All Souls Fox Mulder: And why would God allow this to happen? Why do bad things happen to good people? Religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in history. Dana Scully: I was raised to believe that God has His reasons however mysterious. Fox Mulder: He may well have His reasons, but He seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out His job orders.
	Season 5 / Episode 17: - All Souls Fox Mulder: [Speaking to Father Gregory who is praying inside an interrogation room] What are you asking for, Father? Mercy or forgiveness? You know... they say when you talk to God it's prayer, but when God talks to you it's schizophrenia. What is your God telling you, Father?
	Season 5 / Episode 5: - The Post-Modern Prometheus Dana Scully: Why are you humoring them Mulder? Fox Mulder: I'm not humoring them, Scully. This is a very serious crime. Dana Scully: So is perjury. So is calling out F.B.I. agents under false pretenses. Fox Mulder: For the purpose of what? Dana Scully: Isn't it obvious? I think what we're seeing here is an example of a culture for whom daytime talk shows and tabloid headlines have become a reality against which they measure their lives. A culture so obsessed by the media and a chance for self-dramatization that they'll do anything in order to gain a spotlight. Fox Mulder: I am alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype. Not everybody's dream is to get on Jerry Springer. Dana Scully: Psychologists often speak of the denial of an unthinkable evil or a misplacement of shared fears, anxieties taking the form of a hideous monster for whom the most horrific human attributes can be ascribed. What we can't possibly imagine ourselves capable of we can blame of the ogre, on the hunchback, on the lowly half-breed. Common sense alone will tell you that these legends, these unverified rumors, are ridiculous. Fox Mulder: But nonetheless, unverifiable and, therefore, true in the sense that they're believed to be true. Dana Scully: Is there anything that you don't believe in, Mulder?
	Season 4 / Episode 12: - Leonard Betts Fox Mulder: [on Leonard Bett's brain sections] Let's get a slice to go.
	Season 4 / Episode 12: - Leonard Betts Fox Mulder: Worms. You cut a worm in half, you get two. Dana Scully: Mulder, they're worms.
	Season 4 / Episode 12: - Leonard Betts Fox Mulder: That's his head, but where's his body?
	Season 4 / Episode 12: - Leonard Betts Fox Mulder: [having two identical bodies of Leonard Betts in the morgue] Will the real Leonard Betts please stand up?
	Season 4 / Episode 9: - Terma (2) Fox Mulder: [questioning a home-grown terrorist] You want to know about anarchy? You don't tell me where that other bomb is, and i'll make sure you spend your prison time on your bigoted hands and knees putting a big smile on some convict's face.
	Season 4 / Episode 8: - Tunguska (1) Fox Mulder: [shoving Krycek's face away roughly] Stupid ass haircut!
	Season 4 / Episode 8: - Tunguska (1) Alex Krycek: [handcuffed to the steering wheel, bitchy] Where have you been? Fox Mulder: Making travel arrangements. Alex Krycek: To go where? Fox Mulder: Follow the pouch. Alex Krycek: [moody] You're going to keep me in the dark? Fox Mulder: [punching Krycek hard in the face] Yeah.
	Season 4 / Episode 4: - Unruhe Fox Mulder: [Interrogating Gerald Schnauz] Do you want to tell us about the first time you were arrested, Gerry? Dana Scully: In 1980 you attacked your father with an axe handle. You beat him so severely that he spent the remainder of his life in a wheelchair. Gerry Schnauz: I was not jailed, I was institutionalized. I had a kind of... chemical imbalance. Fox Mulder: Yeah, [reading from folder] 'Gerald Thomas Schnauz diagnosed and treated for a paranoid schizophrenic disorder. Six years in Melvoyne Psychiatic Hospital. Released 1986.' So what have you been up to since 1986, Gerry? Gerry Schnauz: Taking care of my father. Looking after him 24 hours a day. Making amends. He, uh... passed away in January. Fox Mulder: How did you feel about that? Gerry Schnauz: Sad... Fox Mulder: It says here you have a sister. Where is your sister, Gerry? Gerry Schnauz: She passed... Fox Mulder: Actually, it says here she committed suicide in 1980. God, that was a bad year. What else happened in 1980, Gerry? Gerry Schnauz: [Heated, almost indignant] Well, John Lennon got shot...
	Season 4 / Episode 2: - Home Fox Mulder: Oh, that was just a little too Chuck Bronson for me.
	Season 3 / Episode 18: - Teso Dos Bichos Fox Mulder: Go with it, Scully.
	Season 3 / Episode 18: - Teso Dos Bichos Fox Mulder: Follow that cat.
	Season 3 / Episode 15: - Piper Maru (1) Wayne Morgan: What the hell is that? Fox Mulder: Looks like the fuselage of a plane. Dana Scully: It's a North American P-51 Mustang. Wayne Morgan: Yeah, sure is. Fox Mulder: I just got very turned on.
	Season 3 / Episode 7: - The Walk Fox Mulder: Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity.
	Season 3 / Episode 7: - The Walk Fox Mulder: [to a quadruple amputee] No sleepwalking.
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - The List Fox Mulder: Every major world religion encompasses the idea of life after death. That means millions, even billions, of people believe in some kind of transmigration or rebirth of the soul. Dana Scully: I'm sorry, Mulder. That's not what I learned in catechism. Fox Mulder: Well, even Christianity teaches about the resurrection and ascendancy of the heavenly body.
	Season 2 / Episode 24: - Our Town Dana Scully: What are you talking about? Fox Mulder: Some cannibalistic rituals are enacted with the belief that they can prolong life. Dana Scully: Cannibalism is one thing, but increasing longevity by eating human flesh... Fox Mulder: Think about it. From vampirism to Catholicism, whether literally or symbolically, the reward for eating flesh is eternal life.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Fearful Symmetry Fox Mulder: Where's Langly? Byers: He has a philosophical aversion to having his image bounced off a satellite.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Fearful Symmetry Fox Mulder: I once saw David Copperfield levitate the Statue of Liberty.
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Colony (1) Dana Scully: Our friend from the C.I.A. is about as unbelievable as his story... as is everything about this case. I mean, whatever happened to "trust no one", Mulder? Fox Mulder: Oh, I changed it to "trust everyone". I didn't tell you?

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