The X Files: I Want to Believe Quotes

Margaret Fearon: It's nothing against you.

Dana Scully: No.

Margaret Fearon: If you were a mother, you'd understand.

Fox Mulder: Are you asking me to give up?

Dana Scully: No. I can't tell you to do that, Mulder. But I can tell you that I won't be coming home.

Dana Scully: Listen to me! I need your help!

Agent Mosley Drummy: I'm sorry. I - I can't help you.

Dana Scully: Then let me talk to somebody there with some balls who can.

Dana Scully: Mulder. Can you hear me?

Fox Mulder: [drugged] Sorry about your car.

Fox Mulder: Scully? Why would he say that?

[he pauses then follows Scully to her car]

Fox Mulder: "Don't give up." Why would he say such a thing to you?

Dana Scully: I think that was clearly meant for you, Mulder.

Fox Mulder: He didn't say it to me. He said it to you.

Dana Scully: Umm...

Fox Mulder: If Father Joe were the devil, why would he say the opposite of what the devil might say?

[she doesn't reply, though clearly attempting to rationalize]

Fox Mulder: Maybe that's the answer. You know, the larger answer.

Dana Scully: What do you mean?

Fox Mulder: Don't give up.

Dana Scully: Please don't make this any harder than it already is.

Fox Mulder: It's OK... OK.

Fox Mulder: [wrapping his arms around Scully, allowing her to rest her head on his chest] If you have any doubts, any doubts at all, just call off that surgery this morning. And then we'll get out of here.

[he loosens his embrace enough to look into her eyes]

Fox Mulder: Just me and you.

Dana Scully: As far away from the darkness as we can get?

Fox Mulder: I'm not sure it works that way. I think maybe the darkness finds you, and me.

Dana Scully: [as a tear rolls down her cheek] I know it does.

Fox Mulder: But let it try.

[they embrace again, this time pulling together in a long, passionate kiss]

Fox Mulder: This is not an exact science. If it were me, I'd be on the guy 24/7. I'd be in bed with him kissing his holy ass.

ASAC Dakota Whitney: Father Joe is a convicted pedophile.

Fox Mulder: [surprised] ... Maybe I'd stay out of bed with him.

Dana Scully: Yeah, well, it's been fun.

Fox Mulder: Scully? Nobody's gonna make you sit next to him.

Dana Scully: Thanks, but I've already been taken for a ride. Anyway, he doesn't want me there.

Fox Mulder: I want you here.

Dana Scully: This isn't my life anymore, Mulder. I'm done chasing monsters in the dark.

Fox Mulder: I can feel you thinking.

Dana Scully: I'm sorry. I can't sleep.

Fox Mulder: Actually, I have a little something for that.

Dana Scully: Just a little something?

Fox Mulder: Thank you.

Dana Scully: What are you doing?

Fox Mulder: I'm trying to ignore you.

Assistant Director Walter Skinner: We will find him. I know Mulder. He'd get to a phone and call first. He wouldn't do anything crazy.

[Scully stares at him]

Assistant Director Walter Skinner: Not overly crazy.

Agent Mosley Drummy: I don't believe this.

Fox Mulder: That's been your problem from the start.

[last lines]

Assisting Nurse: Are you ready to begin, uh, Dr. Scully?

Dana Scully: [Scully scans around the room at all the other medical personnel, finally pausing for several seconds to look at three nuns observing through a window] Yes.

Dana Scully: What was it you were praying for in there, sir?

Father Joe: For the salvation of my immortal soul.

Dana Scully: And do you think God hears your prayers?

Father Joe: Do you think he hears yours?

Dana Scully: I didn't bugger 37 altar boys.

Father Joe: Oh.

Fox Mulder: That's a colorful way of puttin' it.

Dana Scully: Well, I have another word, if you'd like.

Fox Mulder: I'm sure you do.

Dana Scully: You know, the truth is, I worrry about you, and the effects of long-term isolation.

Fox Mulder: [chuckling] I'm fine here. I'm happy as a clam.

Father Joe: And where do they come from, these appetites, these uncontrollable urges of ours?

Dana Scully: Not from God!

Father Joe: Not from me. I castrated myself when I was twenty-six.

Dana Scully: This stubbornness of yours, it's why I fell in love with you.

Fox Mulder: It's like you said. That's why we can't be together.