Doctor Quotes: Ten

THE CHRISTMAS INVASION

[The Doctor]: Now, first things first. Be honest. How do I look?
[Rose]: Umm...different.
[The Doctor]: Good different or bad different?
[Rose]: Just...different.
[The Doctor]: Am I...ginger?
[Rose]: No, you're just sort of...brown.
[The Doctor]: [disappointed] Aw, I wanted to be ginger! I've never been ginger! And you, Rose Tyler! Fat lot of good you were! You gave up on me! [Rose looks annoyed.] Ooh, that's rude. Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger.

[Sycorax Leader]: Blood control is just one form of conquest. I could summon the armada and take this world by force!
[The Doctor]: Well...you could do that. Yeah, you could do that. Of course you could! But why? Look at these people, these human beings. Consider their potential! From the day they arrive on the planet, blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than—no, hold on. Sorry, that's The Lion King. But the point still stands: leave them alone!

[The Doctor]: Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones! 'Cause I'm a completely new man! I could bring down your government with a single word!
[Harriet Jones]: You're the most remarkable man I've ever met. But I don't think you're quite capable of that.
[The Doctor]: No, you're right. Not a single word; just six.
[Harriet Jones]: I don't think so.
[The Doctor]: Six words.
[Harriet Jones]: Stop it!
[The Doctor]: Six. [walks over to Alex and whispers to him] Don't you think she looks tired?

NEW EARTH

[Cassandra-in-Doctor]: Ooh, my. Well this is... different.
[Rose]: Cassandra?
[Cassandra-in-Doctor]: Goodness me, I'm a man! Yum! So many parts... and hardly used. [clutches the Doctor's chest] Oh, two hearts! [dancing to the dual heartbeat] Oh baby, I'm beating out a samba!
[Rose]: Get out of him!
[Cassandra-in-Doctor]: Oh, he's slim. [turn to Rose] And a little bit foxy! [raises eyebrows] You thought so, too. I've been inside your head, you've been looking...you like it.

TOOTH AND CLAW

[Captain Reynolds]: You will explain your presence, and the nakedness of this girl.
[The Doctor]: [switches to David Tennant's Scottish accent] Are we in Scotland?
[Captain Reynolds]: [annoyed] How can you be ignorant of that?
[The Doctor]: Oh, I'm, I'm dazed and confused. I've been chasing this...this wee-naked child over hill and over dale. Ain't that right, ya...tim'rous beastie?
[Rose]: Uh-uh...[adopts an extremely terrible Scottish accent] och aye, I've been oot and aboot—
[The Doctor]: [quietly to Rose, in the Doctor's Estuary English accent] No, don't do that.
[Rose]: Hoots, mon!
[The Doctor]: [still quiet] No, really don't. Really.

SCHOOL REUNION

[The Doctor]: [posing as a teacher, introducing himself to class] So, physics! Physics, eh? Physics! Phyyyysics! [catches himself] I hope you're getting all this down!

THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE

[Rose]: Oh, here's trouble. What you been up to?
[The Doctor]: Oh, this and that. Became the imaginary friend of a future French aristocrat, picked a fight with a clockwork man... [A horse whinnies off screen] Oh, and I met a horse.
[Mickey]: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
[The Doctor]: Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!

THE IDIOT'S LANTERN

[Eddie Connolly]: [fiercely] I am talking!
[The Doctor]: [stands up and matches Eddie] And I'm not listening!

DOOMSDAY

[Donna Noble]: Wha—
[The Doctor]: What?
[Donna Noble]: Who're you?
[The Doctor]: What?
[Donna Noble]: Where am I?
[The Doctor]: What?
[Donna Noble]: What the hell is this place?!
[The Doctor]: What?!

THE RUNAWAY BRIDE

[The Doctor]: Guess what I've got, Donna? [holds up the roboform remote control] Pockets!
[Donna]: [surprised] How did that fit in there?
[The Doctor]: They're bigger on the inside.

SMITH AND JONES

[The Doctor]: How does it do that? It's wood! It's like a box with that room just crammed in. It's... [The Doctor mouths the next few words along with her] bigger on the inside!
[The Doctor]: [sarcastically] Is it? I hadn't noticed.

THE SHAKESPEARE CODE

[The Doctor]: Good old J. K.!

BLINK

[The Doctor]: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause-of-effect...but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly...timey-wimey...stuff.

[The Doctor]: Tracked you down with this. This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes "ding!" when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow.

UTOPIA

[The Doctor]: And... Utopia is...?
[Professor Yana]: Oh, every human knows about Utopia! Where have you been?!
[The Doctor]: Bit of a hermit.
[Professor Yana]: A hermit. With... friends?
[The Doctor]: Hermits United. We meet up every ten years. Swap stories about caves. It's good fun... for a hermit.

VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

[Rickston Slade]: Hang on a minute. Who put you in charge? And who in the hell are you, anyway?
[The Doctor turns around to face Slade.]
[The Doctor]: I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?
[Slade]: [stunned] ...No.
[The Doctor]: In that case: Allons-y!

THE FIRES OF POMPEII

[Spurrina]: This prattling voice will cease, forever!
[Spurrina raises her knife to cease the "prattling voice."]
[The Doctor]: [sardonically] Oh, that'll be the day.

THE SONTARAN STRATEGEM

[The Doctor]: Name?
[General Staal]: General Staal of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet. "Staal The Undefeated!"
[The Doctor]: Oh that's no good. What if you get defeated? "Staal The Not-Quite-So-Undefeated-Any-More-But-Never-Mind"?

[The Doctor]: Oh, now...that's clever! Look! [dons glasses] Single-molecule fabric. How thin is that?! You could pack a tent in a thimble. Oh, gravity simulators! Terraforming! Biospheres! Mano-tech steel construction! Ha-ha, this is brilliant! But you know, with equipment like this, you could, oh, I don't know... move to another planet or something.
[Luke Rattigan]: If only that was possible.
[The Doctor]: If only that were possible. [removes glasses] Conditional clause.

THE UNICORN AND THE WASP

[With his mouth full, the Doctor resorts to charades to mime the next food he needs.]
[Donna]: I can't understand you... How many words? One! One word! Shake...milk-shake...milk?! No, not milk. Shake, shake, shake?! Cocktail shaker! What do you want, a Harvey Wallbanger?
[The Doctor]: Harvey Wallbanger?!
[Donna]: Well, I don't know!
[The Doctor]: How is "Harvey Wallbanger" one word?!
[Agatha Christie]: Doctor, what do you need?
[The Doctor]: Salt! I was miming salt, I need salt, I need something salty!
[Donna grabs a brown bag.]
[Donna]: What about this?
[The Doctor]: What is it?!
[Donna]: Salt!
[The Doctor]: Oh, that's too salty!
[Donna]: [sarcastically] Oh, that's too salty!
[Agatha Christie]: What about this?
[The Doctor]: Mmm! [eats]
[Donna]: What's that?
[Agatha Christie]: Anchovies.
[Donna]: What is it? What else?
[The Doctor mimes open palms, with arms outstretched.]
[Donna]: It's a song... Mammy!? I don't know, Camptown Races?
[The Doctor]: Camptown Races?!
[Donna]: All right then, Towering Inferno?
[The Doctor]: It's a shock, a shock, I need a shock!
[Donna]: All right then, big shock coming up... [kisses him on the lips]
[The Doctor exhales the toxins.]
[The Doctor]: Ahh, detox. Oh, I must do that more often. [beat] I mean, the detox...

SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY

[The Doctor]: Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark, but they're wrong, because it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada.

FOREST OF THE DEAD

[River's narration]: [as the Doctor walks away from the Library] When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.
[The Doctor runs back and picks up River's sonic screwdriver]
[The Doctor]: Why? Why would I give her my screwdriver? Why would I do that? The thing is, future me had years to think about it. All those years to think of a way to save her, and what he did was give her a screwdriver! Why would I do that!? [peels back a panel to reveal a set of green lights like on the suits, realizing why his future self has given River the screwdriver] Oh, oh, oh! Look at that! I'm very good!
[Donna]: What have you done?
[The Doctor]: Saved her!

MIDNIGHT

[The Doctor and Sky Silvestry]: Roast beef. Bananas. The Medusa Cascade. [Beat] BANG! [Rapidfire] Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, TARDIS! [beat] Shamble-bobble-dibble-dooble. [beat] Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes, I am, thank you.

THE WATERS OF MARS

[As the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS, he hears a gunshot: Adelaide has killed herself to undo the changes he has caused to history. As the Doctor reels back in horror, in his mind, he sees the changes to time caused by his arrogance and hubris]
[Adelaide]: [in the Doctor's head] I don't care who you are: the Time Lord Victorious is wrong!
[Ethereal singing sounds. The Doctor looks around the TARDIS to see Ood Sigma looking at him]
[The Doctor:] I've gone too far.

THE END OF TIME PART TWO

[The Doctor]: [still angry] Well, exactly, look at you. Not remotely important. But me... I could do so much more! So much more! But this is what I get, my reward. And it's not fair! [resigned to his fate] Oh...lived too long.

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