QUOTES FROM DOCTOR WHO
The Ninth and Tenth Doctors
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!
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.
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.
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 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: 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.
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: 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: My mother's cooking.
The Doctor: Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer.
Henry Van Statten: Wipe his memory. Put him on the road someplace. Memphis. Minneapolis. Somewhere beginning with M. new
aide steps in So, the next president, what do you think? Republican or Democrat?
Goddard: Democrat.
Van Statten: For what reason?
Goddard: They're just so funny, sir?
Dalek: Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?
Rose: Yeah.
Dalek: So am I. Exterminate.
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: 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.
The Editor to Suki: Burn her mind.
Cathica sensing it: Oh no you don't! You should've promoted me years back!
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'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.
Rose: Where I come from, Jackie doesn't know how to work the time on the video recorder.
Pete: I showed her that last week. *beat* Point taken.
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 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: 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.
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?
Mrs. Harker: Mr. Constantine.
Mr. Constantine: Mrs. Harker. How much better you're looking.
Mrs. Harker: My leg's grown back. When I come to the 'ospital I had one leg.
Mr. Constantine: Well, there is a war on. Is it possible you miscounted?
Mickey to Jack: What are you captain of? The innuendo squad?
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.
Finding himself on What Not to Wear:
Captain Jack: Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?
Android: Absolutely.
Captain Jack: Ladies, your viewing figures just went up.
Captain Jack: Hold on, ladies. I don't want to have to shoot either one of you.
Android 1: But you're unarmed. You're naked!
Android 2: But that's a compact laser deluxe!
Android 1: Where were you hiding that?
Captain Jack: You really don't want to know.
The Doctor: Someone's been playing a long game. Controlling the human race from behind the scenes for generations.
Captain Jack: The extrapolator's working. We've got a fully functional forcefield. Try saying that when you're
drunk.
Captain Jack: It's been fun, but I guess this is goodbye.
Rose: Don't talk like that. the Doctor's gonna do it. Just, watch him.
Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. kisses her. Wish I'd never met you Doctor. I was much better off as
a coward. kisses him. to both: See you in hell.
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.
Dalek Emperor: Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you? Coward or killer?
The Doctor: Coward. Any day.
The Doctor: Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you. You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know
what? So was I.
Harriet: Ladies and gentlemem, if I may take a moment during this difficult time. As far as the Queen's speech,
I'm afraid that's been cancelled. to someone off screen: Did we ask about the Royal Family? Oh. to camera They're on the roof.
The Doctor: Not bad for a man in his jim jams. Very Arthur Dent. Now, there was a nice
man.
The Doctor: So in the year five billion, the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted.
Rose: That was our first date.
The Face of Boe: We shall meet again for the third time—the last time—and then the secret shall be
told.
The Doctor: That is enigmatic. That is textbook enigmatic.
Sir Robert: I'm sorry, Mum. It's all my fault. I should've sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong.
I thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?
The Doctor: Well, they were bald, athletic... your wife's away, I just thought you were happy.
Reinette: Monsieur, be careful!
The Doctor: Just a nightmare, Reinette. Don't worry about it. Everyone has nightmares. Nothing to worry about. Even monsters
under the bed have nightmares, don't you [?].
Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?
The Doctor: Me!
Reinette: There comes a time, Time Lord, when every lonely little boy must dance.
Pete: I thought I was broadcasting to security services and what do I get? Scooby Doo and his gang. They've even
got the van.
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor, by the way. If anyone's interested.
Rose: And I'm Rose. Hello.
Pete: Even better. That's the name my dog. Still, at least I've got the catering staff on my side.
Policeman: Wait wait wait Where do we think we're—ah! The Doctor flashes his slightly psychic paper I'm
very sorry, sir. Shouldn't you be at the coronation?
The Doctor: They're saving me a seat.
Tommy: Who did he think you were?
The Doctor: The King of Belgium, apparently.
Toby: It's buried beneath us—in the darkness. Waiting.
Rose: What's your job, Chief Dramatist?
Ida: Well, we've come this far. There's no turning back.
The Doctor: Oh, did you have to? "No turning back." That's almost as bad as, "nothing can possibly go wrong" or "this is going to be the best Christmas this orphanage has ever had."
The Doctor: We found something. Looks like metal, like some sort of seal. I've got a nasty feeling it might be a trap door. Not a good word, "trap door". Never been a trap door I liked.
The Doctor: That thing is playing on very basic fears. Darkness. Childhood nightmares. All that stuff.
Dan: But that's how the devil works.
The Doctor: Or a good psychologist.
Ida: You never really said. You two, who are you?
The Doctor: Oh... the stuff of legend!
Jackie: Do you think you'll ever settle down?
Rose: The Doctor never will, so I can't. I'll just keep on traveling.
Jackie: And he'll keep on changing. And in forty years time, fifty, they'll be this woman, this strange woman walking through
the marketplace. On some planet a billion miles from Earth. But she's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human.
The Doctor: Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I traveled through time and space
with her mother.
Yvonne: They're invading the whole planet.
The Doctor: It's not an invasion. It's too late for that. It's a victory.
Cyberman: Your design in inelegant.
Dalek: Daleks have no concept of elegance!
Cyberman: This is obvious.
Rose: Am I ever going to see you again?
The Doctor: You can't.
The Doctor: Milkshake. I love banana!
The Doctor: Traveling through established timelines is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap tricks.
Martha: And those are men dressed as women, yeah?
The Doctor: London never changes.
The Doctor: I'm Sir Doctor of Tardis and this is my companion Martha Jones.
Shakespeare: Interesting, that bit of paper. It's blank.
The Doctor: Rage rage against the dying of the light.
Shakespeare: I might use that.
The Doctor: You can't. It's someone else's.
Martha: Woah, nelly! I know for a fact you have wife in country.
Shakespeare: But Martha, this is town.
The Doctor: C'mon, we can have a good flirt later.
Shakespeare: That a promise, Doctor?
The Doctor: Oh... Fifity-seven academics just punched the air.
Martha: What did you do?
The Doctor: I named her. The power of a name. That's old magick.
Martha: But there's no such thing as magic.
The Doctor: Well... there's a science to it...
Martha: You're taking me to the same planets you took her?
The Doctor: What's wrong with that?
Martha: Nothing. Just a bit of a rebound.
The Doctor: Look after this. I love that coat. Janis Joplin gave me that coat.
Martha: Who is it?
The Doctor: I don't even know. Legend says the Face is literally millions of years.
The Face of Boe: Everything has its time. You know that, old friend. Better than most.
The Face of Boe: I have seen so much. Perhaps too much. I am the last of my kind. As you are the last of yours, Doctor.
The Doctor: Don't go.
The Face of Boe: I must. But know this, Time Lord: you are not alone.
The Doctor: Just what every city needs—cats in charge.
Martha: But what did he mean? The Face of Boe? That you're not alone?
The Doctor: I don't know.
Martha: You;ve got me, is that what he meant?
The Doctor: I don't think so.Sorry.
Martha: Then what?
The Doctor: It doesn't matter.
Tallulah: You've got that guy in a suit...
Martha: We're not together.
Tallulah: Oh sure you are. I've seen the way you look at him. It's obvious.
Martha: Not to him.
Tallulah: I shoud have realized, he's in to musical theatre. What a waste. Still you gotta live in hope.
The Doctor: They survive. They always survive while I lose everything.
Martha: I'm so glad to see you.
The Doctor: Yeah well you can kiss me later. You too Frank, if you want.
Tallulah: New York City. If aliens had to come to Earth, no wonder they came here.
Martha: We worked it out—there's Dalekanium on the mast. And it's good to see you too, by the way.
The Doctor: Oh, come here! hugs Martha as the elevator closes. See? Never waste time on a hug.
Leticia: You have to spoil everything, don't you....
Martha: Tish, he's a monster.
Leticia: I know the age thing's pretty freaky, but it works for Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The Doctor: Ah Mrs. Jones. We still haven't finished our chat.
Mrs. Jones: Keep away from my daughter!
Martha: Mum what are you doing?
The Doctor: Always the mothers, all the time.
The Doctor: If you hang around Beethoven you're bound to pick a few things up.
Martha: Especially about playing loud.
The Doctor: Sorry?
Riley: The wonderful world of space travel. The prettier it looks, the more likely it is to kill you.
John Smith: Funny how dreams slip away.
Latimer: That's exactly the problem, Sir. They only have spears.
Headmaster: Oh dear me. Latimer takes it upon himself to tell us all how wrong we are. I hope one day Latimer we might have a just and proper war in which to prove yourself.
Martha: You had to, didn't you. You had to go and fall in love with a human. And it isn't me.
Martha: Don't just stand there, move! God you're rubbish as a human!
Latimer: Maybe I was given this watch so I could help. leaving the front line Sorry.
Hutchinson: Latimer, you filthy coward.
Latimer: Oh yes, sir. Every time.
Joan: What if it's them?
Martha: I'm not an expert, but I don't think scarecrows knock.
Latimer: ... I've seen him. And he's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm and the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the Universe.
John Smith: Stop it! Just stop it!
Latimer: And... he's wonderful.
The Doctor: 'Cause if there's one thing you shouldn't have done, you shouldn't have let me press all those buttons. But in fairness, I will give you one word of advice: run.
Beware the weeping angels. Oh, and duck. No really duck! Sally Sparrow. DUCK, NOW! Love from The Doctor 1969
The Doctor: This is my Timey-Wimey detector. Goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at thirty paces. Whether you want it to or no, actually. I've learned to atay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow.
Sally: How can you know what I'm going to say?
The Doctor: Look to your left.
Larry: What does he mean by "look to your left"? I've written tons about that on the forum. I think it's a political statement.
Sally: He means you.
Larry: “The angels have the phonebox”. That's my favorite. I've got that on a t-shirt.
The Doctor on the DVD: Your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink! Good luck.
The Doctor: You two! We're at the end of the Universe. Right at the edge of knowledge itself. And you're busy blogging!
The Professor: Might I ask what species are you?
The Doctor: Time Lord. Last of. Heard of them? Legend? Heard of them? Not even a myth? Blimey, end of the universe is a bit humbling.
The Doctor: It strikes me, Professor, you've got a room which no man can enter without dying. Is that correct?
The Professor: Yes.
The Doctor: Well. Jack is revived I think I've got just the man.
Jack: Was someone kissing me?
The Doctor: You might be out there somewhere.
Jack: I could go meet myself.
The Doctor: Well. The only man you're ever going to be happy with.
Jack: This new regeneration, it's kinda cheeky!
Jack: So Doctor, who is he? How come the ancient society of Time Lords created a psychopath?
Martha: And what is he to you? A colleague or—
The Doctor: A friend, at first.
Martha: I thought you were going to say he was your secret brother or something.
The Doctor: You've been watching too much TV.
The Doctor: It just shifts your perception a tiny little bit. Doesn't make us invisible, just unnoticed. I know what's it like: it's like when you fancy someone and they don't even know you exist. That's what it's like.
Jack to Martha: You too, huh?
Jack's line was apparently cut from the Sci-Fi airing. Shame.
The Master: Laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?
Martha: I traveled across the world, from the ruins of New York to the fusion mills of China. Right across the radiation pits of Europe. And everywhere I went, I saw people just like you, living as slaves. But if Martha Jones became a legend, then that's wrong because my name isn't important. There's someone else. The man who sent me out there, the man who told me to walk the Earth. And his name is the Doctor. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops, he never stays, he never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him, I know him, I love him. And I know what he can do.
The Master: I never could resist a ticking clock.
Martha: Don't you wanna know what I was doing, traveling the world?
The Master: Tell me.
Martha: I told a story, that's all. No weapons, just words. I did just what the Doctor said. I went across the continents, all on my own. And everywhere I went I found the people and I told them my story. I told them about the Doctor. And I told them to pass it, to spread the word so that everyone would know about the Doctor.
The Master: Faith and hope. Is that all?
Martha: No. 'Cause I gave them an instruction. Just as the Doctor said. I told them that if everyone thinks of one word, at one specific time—
The Master: Nothing will happen. Is that your weapon? Prayer?
Martha: —right across the world. One word, just one thought, at one moment, but with fifteen satellites.
The Master: What?
Jack: The Archangel Network.
Martha: The telepathic field, binding the whole human race together. With all of them, every single person on Earth, thinking the same thing at the same time. And that word is "Doctor."
The Doctor: I can't have you walking around with a time traveling teleport. You could go anywhere. Twice! The second time to apologize.
Jack: Used to be a poster boy, when I was a kid, living in the Boeshane peninsula. Tiny little place. I was the first one ever to be signed up for the Time Agency. They were so proud of me. The Face of Boe, they called me.
The Doctor: Bad name for a ship. Either that, or this suit is really unlucky.
The Doctor: First things first. One. We are going to climb through this ship. B. (No.) Two. We are going to reach the Bridge. There. Or C. We are going to save the Titanic. And, coming in a very low Four. Or D. Or that little IV in brackets they use on footnotes. Wine. Well then, follow me.
Mr. Copper: So Great Britain is a part of Europe. And just across the British channel you've got Great France and Great Germany.
The Doctor: No, it's just France and Germany. Only Britain is Great.
Mr. Copper: And they're all at war with the continent of "Hamerica".
The Doctor: No. Well. Not yet. Um. You could argue that one.
The Doctor: What's that for?
Phone Bank Woman: My telephone number. Health and Safety. You be health, I'll be safety.
The Doctor: Ah.. ah, but that contravenes, um, Paragraph 5 subsection C.
The Doctor: Tell me Roger, have you got a cat flap?
Roger: It was here when I bought the house. I never bothered with it really. I'm not a cat person.
The Doctor: No I've met cat people. You're nothing like them.
Donna: I must have been mad to turn down that offer.
The Doctor: What offer?
Donna: To come with you.
The Doctor: Come with me?
Donna: Oh yes, please!
The Doctor: Right.
THE FIRES OF POMPEII
Seller: Afternoon, sweetheart. What can I get you, my love?
Donna: Um, veni, vidi, vici.
Seller: Huh? Sorry? Me no speak Celtic. No can do, missy.
Donna: Yeah. What does he mean, 'Celtic'?
The Doctor: Welsh. You sound Welsh. There we are. Learned something.
Donna: Wait a minute. One mountain. With smoke. Which makes this—
The Doctor: Pompeii. We're in Pompeii. And it's Volcano Day.
Caecilius: Modern art! shooing the movers Out of the way, that's it! Oh Rhombus I'm a little bit peckish. get me some ants and honey. There's a good lad. Oo! Maybe a doormouse.
