QUOTES from Doctor Who

The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston)

ROSE

The Doctor: I'm the Doctor, by the way. What's your name?
Rose Tyler: Rose.
The Doctor: Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!

Jackie Tyler: I'm in my dressing gown.
The Doctor: Yes, you are.
Jackie: There's a strange man in my bedroom.
The Doctor: Yes, there is.
Jackie: Well, anything could happen.
The Doctor: No.

Rose: Really though, Doctor. Tell me. Who are you?
The Doctor: Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the Earth's turning and you just can't believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it: the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. And the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 thousand miles an hour and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world and if we let go... that's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.

Rose: If you are an alien how come you sound like you're from the North?
The Doctor: Lots of planets have a North.

The Doctor: Right then. I'll be off. Unless, ah, I don't know, you could come with me. This box isn't just a London Hoppa
Mickey: Don't! He's an alien! He's a thing!
The Doctor: He's not invited. What'd you think? You could stay here and fill your life with work and food and drink or you could go... anywhere.
Rose: Is it always this dangerous?
The Doctor: Yeah.

THE END OF THE WORLD

The Doctor: Step outside, it's the year 12,005. The New Roman Empire.
Rose: You think you're so impressive.
The Doctor: I am so impressive.

The Doctor about the invite: The paper's slightly psychic. Show them whatever I want them to see.
Rose about the steward: He's blue.
The Doctor: Yeah.
Rose: Okay.

Jabe: The gift of peace. I bring you a cutting of my grandfather.
The Doctor: Thank you. Yes, gifts. I give you, in return, air from my lungs. blows on her.
Jabe: How... intimate.
The Doctor: There's more where that came from.

Rose: As my mate Shareen says, "Don't argue with the designated driver." pulling out her cell phone. Can't exactly call for a taxi. There's no signal. We're out of range. Just a bit.
The Doctor: Tell you what, with a little bit of jiggery-pokery—
Rose: Is that a technical term, jiggery-pokery?
The Doctor: Yeah. I came first in jiggery-pokery. What about you?
Rose: No. I failed hullabaloo.

The Doctor: You think it'll last forever. People and cars and concrete. But it won't. And one day it's all gone. Even the sky. pause. My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust. Before its time.
Rose: What happened?
The Doctor: There was a war and we lost.
Rose: A war with who? What about your people?
The Doctor: I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left traveling on my own because there's no one else.
Rose: There's me.

THE UNQUIET DEAD

The Doctor: Oh, where do you think you're going?
Rose: 1860s.
The Doctor: Goin' out there, dressed like that? You'll start a riot, Barbarella. pointing There's a wardrobe through there. First left, second right, third on the left, go straight ahead, under the stairs, past the bins, fifth door on your left. Hurry up!

The Doctor reading the paper: I got the date a bit wrong.
Rose: I don't care.
The Doctor: It's not 1860. It's 1869.
Rose: I don't care.
The Doctor: And it's not Naples.
Rose: I don't care.
The Doctor: It's Cardiff.
Rose: Right.

The Doctor: Did it say anything? Did it speak? I'm The Doctor, by the way.
Charles Dickens: Doctor? You look more like a nanny.
The Doctor: What's wrong with this jumper?

Dickens: Must be we're under some kind of mesmeric influence.
The Doctor: No we're not. The dead are walking. to Rose. Hi.
Rose: Hi. Who's your friend?
The Doctor: Charles Dickens.
Rose: Okay.

The Doctor about Gwyneth: Now don't antagonize her. I love a happy Medium.
Rose: I can't believe you just said that.

Dickens: Incredible. Ghosts that are not ghosts, but beings from another world that can only exist in our realm by inhabiting cadavers.
The Doctor: Good system. Might work.
Rose: You can't let them run around inside dead people.
The Doctor: Why not? It's like recycling.
Rose: Seriously though, you can't.
The Doctor: Seriously though, I can.

The Doctor: Mr. Sneed, what's the weakest part of this house? The place where most of the ghosts have been seen?
Mr. Sneed: That would be... the morgue.
Rose: No chance you were going to say "gazebo", is there?

The Doctor about Mr. Sneed: I think he's gone a little bit wrong.

The Doctor: What about me? I saw the fall of Troy. World War V. I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party. Now I'm going to die in a dungeon. In Cardiff.

ALIENS OF LONDON

The Doctor: It's not twelve hours. It's twelve months. You've been gone a whole year. *beat* Sorry.

Jackie about Rose: What, did you find her online? Go on the internet and pretend you're a doctor?
The Doctor: I am a doctor.
Jackie: Prove it. Stitch this, mate! smacks him

Rose: My mum's here.
The Doctor: Oh that's just what I need. Don't you dare go and make this place domestic.

The Doctor: If aliens fake an alien crash, an alien pilot, what do they get? pause. Us. They get us. It's not a diversion, it's a trap.

WORLD WAR THREE

The Doctor: I think you'll find that the Prime Minister is an alien in disguise. pause. That's never gonna work, is it?
Policeman: No.

The Slitheen: Who are you, if not human?
Harriet Jones: Who's not human?
Rose: He's not a human.
Harriet Jones: He's not human?
The Doctor to Rose and Harriet: Can I have a bit of a hush?
Harriet Jones: Sorry.
The Doctor to the Slitheen: So, what's the plan?
Harriet Jones: But he's got a Northern accent.
Rose: Lots of planets have a North.
The Doctor: I said "hush".

The Doctor handing her a decanter: Harriet, have a drink. I think you're going to need it.
Harriet Jones correcting him: You pass it to the left.
The Doctor: Sorry.

The Doctor: Mickey, have you got any vinegar?
Mickey on the phone: How should I know?
The Doctor: It's your kitchen.
Rose: Cupboard by the sink. Middle shelf.
Jackie: Oh, give it. grabs phone What'dya need?
The Doctor: Anything with vinegar!
Jackie: Gherkins! Yeah, pickled onions. Pickled eggs.
The Doctor to Rose: You kiss this man?

The Doctor: I give you a choice. Leave this planet or I'll stop you.
Slitheen: What? You? Trapped in your box?
The Doctor: Yes. Me.

Rose: Mickey, any luck?
Mickey on the phone: There's loads of emergency numbers. They're all on voicemail.
Harriet: Voicemail dooms us all.
Rose: If we could just get out of here.
The Doctor: There's a way out.
Rose: What?
The Doctor: There's always been a way out.
Rose: Then why don't we use it?
The Doctor: to Jackie Because I can't guarantee your daughter will be safe.
Jackie: Don't you dare. Whatever it is, don't you dare.
The Doctor: That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies.

Rose: My mother's cooking.
The Doctor: Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer.

DALEK

Dalek: I am a soldier. I was bred to receive orders.
The Doctor: Well you're never gonna get them. Not ever.
Dalek: I demand orders!
The Doctor: They're never gonna come! Your race is dead. You all burned—all of you. Ten million ships on fire. The entire Dalek race, wiped out in one second.
Dalek: You lie!
The Doctor: I watched it happen. I made it happen.
Dalek: You destroyed us?
The Doctor: I had no choice.
Dalek: And what of the Time Lords?
The Doctor: Dead. They burned with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost.
Dalek: And the coward survived.

The Doctor: Rose, did you make it?
Rose: Sorry, I was a bit slow. See you then, Doctor. It wasn't your fault. Remember that, okay? You know what? I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

The Doctor: Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore, to be part of something greater.
Van Statten: Exactly! I wanted to touch the stars.
The Doctor: You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground, underneath tons of sand and dirt, and label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get.

The Doctor sorting through alien weapons: Broken. Broken. Hairdryer.

The Doctor: That thing killed hundreds of people.
Rose: It's not the one pointing the gun at me.

THE LONG GAME

The Doctor: The fourth great and bountiful human Empire. And there it is. Planet Earth. At its height. Covered with mega-cities. Five moons. Population: 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain. Stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle.
Adam faints
The Doctor: He's your boyfriend.
Rose: Not anymore.

The Doctor: Um, this is going to sound daft, but can you tell me where I am?
Cathica: Floor 139. Could they write it any bigger?
The Doctor: Floor 139 what?
Cathica: Must have been a hell of a party.
Suki: You're on satellite five.
The Doctor: What's satellite five?
Cathica: Come on. How could you get on board without knowing where you are?
The Doctor: Look at me. I'm stupid.

Adam: This technology's amazing.
The Doctor: This technology's wrong.
Rose: Trouble?
The Doctor pleased: Oh yeah.

Cathica: Doctor, I think if there was any sort of conspiracy, satellite five would have seen it. We see everything. 
The Doctor: I can see better. This society's the wrong shape. Even the technology. 

The Doctor: Why is it so hot?
Cathica: One minute you're worried about the Empire and the next minute it's the central heating?
The Doctor: Oh, never underestimate plumbing. Plumbing's very important. 

Cathica: How come it's giving you the code?
The Doctor: Someone up there likes me.
The Editor (observing from floor 500) laughs

Rose: So all the people on Earth are like, slaves. 
The Editor: Well, now. There's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved? 
The Doctor: Yes. 
The Editor: Oh. I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm going to get? "Yes."? 
The Doctor: Yes. 
The Editor: You're no fun. 
The Doctor: Let me out of these manacles. You'll find out how much fun I am. 

Rose: What about you? You're not a jagra- a-benny—
The Doctor: Jagrafess.
Rose: You're not a jagrafess.
The Editor: Yeah, well, simply being human doesn't pay very well.

The Doctor to Rose: You and your boyfriends!

The Doctor: Oy, mate. You wanna bank on a certainty? Massive heat and massive body: massive bad. See you in the headlines!

FATHER'S DAY

Rose: It's so weird. The day my father died. I thought it'd be all gloomy and stormy. It's just another day.
The Doctor: The past is another country. 1987 is just the Isle of Wight.

The Doctor: I did it again. I picked another stupid ape. I should have known. It's not about showing you the universe. It never is. It's about the universe doing something for you.

Jackie: I'm not listening. It's the duffle coats all over again.
The Doctor: Jackie, sometimes a duffle coat is just a duffle coat.

The Doctor: I've waited a long time to say this. Jackie Tyler, do as I say. Go and check the doors.
Jackie: Yes, sir.
The Doctor: I should have done that ages ago.

Stewart Hoskins: Excuse me, Mister...?
The Doctor: Doctor.
Stewart Hoskins: You seem to know what's going on.
The Doctor: I give that impression, yeah.

THE EMPTY CHILD

Rose: What's the emergency?
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognized color for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All those red alerts, all that dancing. It's got a very basic flight computer. I've hacked in, slaved the TARDIS. Wherever it goes, we go.
Rose: And it's safe, is it?
The Doctor: Totally. things go awry. Okay, reasonably. I should have said reasonably there.

The Doctor: You know how long you can knock around space without having to bump into Earth?
Rose: Five days? Or is that just when we're out of milk?
The Doctor: All the species in all of the universe and it has to come out of a cow.

Rose: Not very Spock, is it? Just asking.
The Doctor: Door, music, people. What do you think?
Rose: I think you should scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock. For once, would it kill you?
The Doctor about Rose's Union Jack t-shirt: Are you sure about that t-shirt?
Rose: Too early to say. I'm taking it out for a spin.

In the middle of the London Blitz:
The Doctor: It might seem like a stupid question, but has anything fallen from the sky recently? the crowd is confused and then starts laughing Sorry, have I said something funny?

The Doctor to the cat: One day, just one day, maybe, I'm going to meet someone who gets the whole "Don't wander off." Nine hundred years of phonebox travel, it's the only thing left to surprise me. The phonebox rings.

The Doctor: So that's what you do, is it, Nancy?
Nancy: What is?
The Doctor: As soon as the sirens go, you find a big fat family meal, still warm on the table with everyone down in the air raid shelter and bingo! Feeding frenzy for the homeless kids of Londontown. Pudding for all. As long as the bombs don't get you.
Nancy: Something wrong with that?
The Doctor: Wrong with it? It's brilliant. I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a West End musical.

The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominos. Nothing can stop it—nothing. Until one tiny, damp little island says "No.". "No. Not here.". A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing, the lot of you. I don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me.

The Doctor: You're very sick.
Dr. Constantine: Dying, I should think. I just haven't been able to find the time. Are you a doctor?
The Doctor: I have my moments.

The Doctor: Mr. Spock?
Rose: What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name. Don't you ever get tired of Doctor? Doctor who?
The Doctor: Nine centuries and I'm coping.

THE DOCTOR DANCES

The Doctor: I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.

The Doctor: Sonic Blaster. 54th century. Weapons factory at [ ].
Jack: You've been to the factories?
The Doctor: Once.
Jack: Well they're gone now. Destroyed. Main reactor went critical. Vaporized the lot.
The Doctor: Like I said: once. There's a banana grove there now. I like bananas. Bananas are good.

The Doctor: Funny little human brains, how do you get around in those things?
Rose: When he's stressed he likes to insult species.

The Doctor: Don't drop the banana!
Jack: Why not?
The Doctor: Good source of potassium!

Jack: Who has a sonic screwdriver?
The Doctor: I do!
Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Woo, this could be a little more sonic."?
The Doctor: What, you've never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?

Rose: Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?
The Doctor: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
Rose: I mean... men.
The Doctor: Okay, thanks. That really helped.

Rose: Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?
The Doctor: Well I've got the moves but I wouldn't want to boast.

The Doctor: We were talking about dancing.
Captain Jack: Didn't look like talking.
Rose: Didn't feel like dancing.

The Doctor: Relax. He's a 51st century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to dancing.

The Doctor: Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!

The Doctor: History said there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?
Rose: Usually the first in line.

The Doctor: Rose, I just remembered.
Rose: What?
The Doctor: I can dance. I can dance!
Rose: Actually, Doctor, I think Jack might like this dance.
The Doctor: I'm sure he would Rose. I'm absolutely certain. But who with?

BOOM TOWN

Jack about Rose and Mickey: Aw, look at these two. How come I never get any of that?
The Doctor: Buy me a drink first.
Jack: Such hard work.
The Doctor: But worth it.

Secretary: The Lord Miss thanks you for dropping by but can't see you at the moment. Perhaps if you could make an appointment for next week...
The Doctor: She's climbing out the window, isn't she?
Secretary: Yes she is.

Margaret: Take me home and you take me to death.
The Doctor: Not my problem.

The Doctor: You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips.

Margaret: I spared her life.
The Doctor: You let one of them go but that's nothing new. Every now and then a little victim's spared because she smiled, 'cause he's got freckles. 'Cause they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions. Because once in awhile—on a whim, if the wind's in the right direction—you happen to be kind.
Margaret: Only a killer would know that.

THE BAD WOLF

Finding himself in the Big Brother house:
Overhead Voice: Would the Doctor please come to the Diary Room. He does. You are live on Channel 44,000. Please do not swear.
The Doctor: You have got to be kidding.

The Doctor: Which means, this isn't just a game. This is something much more powerful. Well, here's the deal. I'm gonna get out of the Big Brother house, I'm going to find my friends. And then I'm going to find you.

The Doctor: Lynda, you're sweet. From what I've seen of your world, do you think anybody votes for sweet?

The Doctor: The human race, brainless sheep being fed on a diet of— mind you, do you still have that program where three people have to live with a bear?

The Doctor: This place should be a base of broadcasting. But the systems are twice as complicated. It's more than just television. This station's transmitting something else.
Captain Jack: Like what?
The Doctor: I don't know. This whole Bad Wolf thing is tied up with me. Someone's manipulating my entire life.

The Doctor to Captain Jack: Let's do it.

The Doctor: Who's in charge of this place? This satellite's more than a game station? Who killed Rose Tyler? I want an answer!
Male Lackey: She can't reply. The Doctor turns to him. Don't shoot!
The Doctor: Oh, don't be so fey [?]. Like I was ever going to shoot. throws him the gun. Captain, we'e got more guards on the way up. Secure the exits.
Captain Jack: Yes, sir.
The Doctor: You, what were you saying?
Male Lackey: But... I've got your gun.
The Doctor: Okay, so shoot me. Why can't she answer?
Male Lackey: She's, uh, can I put this down?
The Doctor: If you want. Just hurry up.

Lackey: Open the door and let us out. The staff are terrified!
The Doctor: That's the same staff who execute hundreds of contestants every day.
Lackey: That's not our fault. We're just doing our jobs.
The Doctor: And with that sentence you just lost the right to even talk to me. Now back off!

The Doctor: Someone's been playing a long game. Controlling the human race from behind the scenes for generations.

The Doctor: Someone's been playing a long game. Controlling the human race from behind the scenes for generations.

The Doctor: There's something sitting right on top of planet Earth, but it's completely invisible. If I cancel the signal—
The Dalek ships appear
Captain Jack: That's impossible. I know those ships. They were destroyed.
The Doctor: Appears though they've survived.
Who did? Who are they?
The Doctor: Two hundred ships. More than two thousand on board each one. That's just about half-a-million of them.
Lynda: Half-a-million what?
The Doctor: Daleks.

Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor.
The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello!
Dalek: The Dalek strategem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.
The Doctor: Oh really? Why's that, then?
Dalek: We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated.
The Doctor: No.
Dalek: Explain yourself.
The Doctor: I said, "No."
Dalek: What is the meaning of this negative?
The Doctor: It means, "No."
Dalek: But she will be destroyed!
The Doctor: No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rescue her. I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth. And then—just to finish off—I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!
Dalek: But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan.
The Doctor: Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose?
Rose: Yes, Doctor?
The Doctor: I'm coming to get you.

THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

Rose: You did it. Feels like I haven't seen you in years.
The Doctor: I told you I'd come and get you.
Rose: I never doubted it.
The Doctor: I did.

The Doctor: They went off to fight a bigger war. A Time War.
Captain Jack: I thought that was just a legend.
The Doctor: I was there. The war between the Daleks and the time Lords. With the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing.

The Doctor: No good standing around here, chin waggin'. The human race should gossip all day. Daleks' have got the answers, let's go meet the neighbors!

The Doctor: It's alright, c'mon out. That forcefield can hold back anything.
Captain Jack: Almost anything.
The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks.
Captain Jack: Sorry.

The Doctor: You know what they call me in the ancient legends on the Dalek home world? "The Oncoming Storm". You might have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right down in your DNA there's one little spark left. And that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me?

The Dalek Emperor: Do not interrupt
The Doctor: I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor and if there's one thing I can do it's talk! I've got give billion languages and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's gonna shut up, it's you!

The Dalek Emperor: I am the god of all Daleks.
Daleks: Worship him! Worship him!
The Doctor: They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive any man mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh. The stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever.

The Doctor: If I'm very clever—and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant—I might just save the world. Or rip it apart.
Rose: I'll go for the first one.
The Doctor: Me too. Now, I've just got to power up the game station. Hold on!
And with that the Doctor sends Rose back to her time

The Doctor (hologram): This is Emergency Program One. Rose, now listen. This is important. If this message is activated then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger. And I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second. We have no chance of escape—
Rose: No!
The Doctor (hologram): —and that's okay. I hope it's a good death. I promised to look after you and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home—
Rose: I won't let you.
The Doctor (hologram): —And I bet you're fussing and moaning right now. Typical. But just hold on and listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Program One means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do: let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it, no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years the world will move on and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, you can do one thing. That's all. One thing. The hologram turns to look at Rose. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.

The Doctor to the Dalek: The whole universe is in danger if I let you live. You see, Jack? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?
Captain Jack: You sent her home. She's safe. Keep working.
Dalek Emperor: But he will exterminate you!
Captain Jack: Never doubted him, never will.

The Doctor: You really want to think about this. Because if I activate the signal, every living creature dies.
Dalek Emperor: I am immortal.
The Doctor: You want to put that to the test?
Dalek Emperor: I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor! The great exterminator!
The Doctor: I'll do it!
Dalek Emperor: Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you? Coward or killer?
The Doctor: Coward. Any day.

Rose: I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be.
The Doctor: That's what I see. All the time. Doesn't it drive you mad?
Rose: My head—
The Doctor: Come here.
Rose: —is killing me.
The Doctor: I think you need a doctor.

The Doctor: Rose Tyler, I was going to take you to so many places.

The Doctor: Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you. You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I.

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