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This page is a collection of quotations from the era of the eleventh official incarnation of The Doctor from the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who, during which the role of the Eleventh Doctor is being played by Matt Smith.
[edit] Catchphrases
- "Geronimo!"
- In The End of Time, Part Two.
- In The Eleventh Hour.
- In The Beast Below.
- In City of the Daleks (The Adventure Games).
- In The Lodger. (Said by Craig after the Doctor planted some personal information in his head.)
- In The Big Bang. (Typed.)
- In A Christmas Carol.
- In The Almost People.
- In The Wedding of River Song.
- "Bow ties are cool."
- In The Eleventh Hour.
- In Meanwhile in the TARDIS 1 (DVD Bonus Scene).
- In Amy's Choice.
- In Vincent and the Doctor.
- In The Lodger.
- In The Big Bang. (Variation: "Fezzes are cool.")
- In The Impossible Astronaut (Variation: "Stetsons are cool.")
- In The Doctor's Wife (Variation: "Bunk beds are cool.")
- In The Girl Who Waited (Variation: "Glasses are cool.")
- "Come along, Pond!"
- In Victory of the Daleks.
- In The Time of Angels.
- In The Big Bang. (Written. Also features variation: "Come along, Ponds.")
- In Death of the Doctor, Part Two (SJA, Variation: "Come along, Smith.")
- In A Christmas Carol (Typed.)
- In The Almost People
- In Let's Kill Hitler
- In Closing Time (Variation: "Come along, Bitey.")
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- "Pay attention"
- In "The Eleventh Hour"
- In "A Christmas Carol"
- In "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"
[edit] Television Series
[edit] Series 4
[edit] The End of Time, Part Two [4.18]
- (1 January 2010)
- The Doctor: "I don't want to go..."
- [The Doctor regenerates, the energy blowing out the windows of the TARDIS and setting the console room ablaze. The Doctor screams as his eleventh incarnation emerges.]
- The Doctor: Legs! I've still got legs! [kisses one of them.] Good. Arms, hands. Ooh, fingers. Lots of fingers. Ears? Yes. Eyes: two. Nose...eh, I've had worse. Chin - blimey! Hair... [notes length.] I'm a girl! [checks Adam's apple.] No! No! I'm not a girl! [pulls a lock of his hair in front of his eyes and looks at it, agitated] And still not ginger! There's something else. Something...important, I'm...[taps head.] I'm—I'm...
- [The whole console room shakes.]
- The Doctor: [ecstatic.] Ha ha! Crashing!
- [As the burning TARDIS falls to Earth, the Doctor clings to the console, laughing and whooping with glee.]
- The Doctor: Geronimo!
[edit] Series 5
- The Doctor: All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?
[edit] The Eleventh Hour [5.1]
- (3 April 2010)
- Amelia: If you're a doctor, then why does your box say "police"? [She gives him the apple, he bites it and spits it out.]
- The Doctor: That's disgusting. What is that?
- Amelia: An apple.
- The Doctor: Apple's rubbish. I hate apples.
- Amelia: You said you loved them.
- The Doctor: No, no, no. I love yogurt, yogurt's my favourite, give me yogurt.
- [Amelia runs, gets yogurt and hands it to him..
- The Doctor: [Opens it, gulps it down then spits it out] I hate yogurt! Just...stuff with bits in.
- Amelia: You said that it was your favorite!
- The Doctor: New mouth, new rules. Its like eating after cleaning your teeth. Everything tastes WROOOONG. Ahhh! [body jerks in different directions]
- Amelia: What is that? Whats wrong with you?
- The Doctor: Wrong with me? Its not my fault. Why can't you give me any decent food? You're Scottish, fry something.
- [Amelia opens stove and cooks.]
- The Doctor: [drying hair with a towel] Ahhh bacon. [Eats it and spits it out] Bacon. That's bacon. Are you trying to poison me?
- [Amelia cooking.]
- The Doctor: Ahh you see? Beans. [Eats then spits in sink.] Beans are evil! Bad, bad beans!
- [Amelia spreading butter on bread looking skeptical]
- The Doctor: Bread and butter. [Smiling]. Now you're talking. [throws it out of the door like a frisbee, cat howls, dog barks] AND STAY OUT!
- [The Doctor pacing, Amelia looking in fridge.]
- Amelia: Got some carrots.
- The Doctor: Carrots?! Are you insane?! No, wait, hang on. I know what I need. [Searching the fridge] I need...I need...I need...[pulls out a box of fish fingers] fish fingers [takes out a carton of custard] and custard!
- The Doctor: You're Amelia!
- Amy: You're late.
- The Doctor: Amelia Pond, you're the little girl!
- Amy: I'm Amelia and you're late.
- The Doctor: What happened?
- Amy: Twelve years.
- The Doctor: You hit me with a cricket bat!
- Amy: Twelve years!
- The Doctor: Cricket bat!
- Amy: Twelve years and four psychiatrists!
- The Doctor: Four?
- Amy: ...I kept biting them.
- The Doctor: ...Why?
- Amy: They said you weren't real.
- The Doctor: And what sort of job's a kissogram?
- Amy Pond: I go to parties and I...kiss people... [clears throat] with outfits. It's a laugh!
- The Doctor: You were a little girl five minutes ago!
- Amy Pond: You're worse than my aunt!
- The Doctor: I'm the Doctor; I'm worse than everybody's aunt! [catches himself] And that is not how I'm introducing myself.
- [Prisoner Zero takes on the Doctor's (as yet unseen by him) form.]
- The Doctor: Now, that's rubbish; who's that supposed to be?
- Rory: Well, that's you!
- The Doctor: Me?! Is that what I look like?
- Rory: You don't know?
- The Doctor: Busy day...
- Atraxi: You are not of this world.
- The Doctor: No, but I've put a lot of work into it. [looking at different ties he might wear] Hm, I dunno...what do you think?
- Atraxi: Is this world important?
- The Doctor: "Important?" What's that mean, "important?" Six billion people live here; is that important? And here's a better question: is this world a threat to the Atraxi? [pause] Well, come on, you're monitoring the whole planet. Is this world a threat?
- [The eye scans through images of the human race.]
- Atraxi: No.
- The Doctor: Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi?
- Atraxi: [scanning through more images] No.
- The Doctor: Okay! One more, just one. Is this world protected?
- [The Atraxi scans through pictures of Cybermen, Daleks, Racnoss, Sea Devils, Slitheen, etc.]
- The Doctor: But you're not the first lot to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you've got to ask is...what happened to them?
- [The Atraxi shows pictures of the previous incarnations of the Doctor, finishing with an image of the Tenth Doctor that the Eleventh Doctor then steps through.]
- The Doctor: Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically...run.
- [The Atraxi take the hint and immediately depart.]
- Amy: It's you. You came back.
- The Doctor: 'Course I came back, I always come back. Something wrong with that?
- Amy: And you kept the clothes.
- The Doctor: Well I just saved the world, the whole planet, for about the millionth time, no charge. Yeah, shoot me! I kept the clothes.
- Amy: Including the bow tie.
- The Doctor: Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool.
- Amy: Are you from another planet?
- The Doctor: Yeah.
- Amy: 'K.
- The Doctor: So, what do you think?
- Amy: What?
- The Doctor: Other planets, wanna check some out?
- Amy: What does that mean?
- The Doctor: It means, well, it means come with me.
- Amy: Where?
- The Doctor: Wherever you like.
- Amy: All that stuff that happened, the hospital, the spaceships, Prisoner Zero...
- The Doctor: Oh, don't worry, that's just the beginning. There's loads more.
- Amy: Yeah, but those things, those amazing things, all that stuff... That was two years ago!
- The Doctor: Oh... Oops.
- Amy: Yeah!
- The Doctor: So that's-
- Amy: Fourteen years!
- The Doctor: Fourteen years since fish custard. Amy Pond, the girl who waited. You've waited long enough.
- Amy Pond: When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool and a library and the swimming pool was in the library.
- The Doctor: Yeah, not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So, coming?
- Amy Pond: No.
- The Doctor: You wanted to come fourteen years ago.
- Amy Pond: I grew up.
- The Doctor: Don't worry, I'll soon fix that.
[The Doctor snaps his fingers and the TARDIS door opens.]
- Amy Pond: I thought...well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.
- The Doctor: Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it...I am definitely a madman with a box.
[edit] The Beast Below [5.2]
- (10 April 2010)
- Poem Girl: A horse and a man, above, below,
One has a plan, but both must go, Mile after mile, above, beneath, One has a smile and one has teeth, Though the man above might say hello, Expect no love from the Beast Below.
- The Doctor: I'm way worse than Scottish. I can't even see the film, it won't play for me.
- Amy: It played for me.
- The Doctor: The difference being the computer doesn't register me as human.
- Amy: Why not? [The Doctor looks at her] You look human...
- The Doctor: No, you look Time Lord. We came first.
- Amy: So there's other Time Lords, yeah?
- The Doctor: No. There were, but there aren't... just me now. Long story. It was a bad day, bad stuff happened. And you know what? I'd love to forget it all, every last bit of it, but I don't. Not ever.
- Amy: It came because it couldn't stand to watch your children cry. What if you were really old, and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead, no future. What couldn't you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and the very last of your kind.... you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry.
- Amy: Have you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just... just because you could?
- The Doctor: Once. A long time ago.
- Amy: What happened?
- The Doctor: [gestures to himself] Hello!
- Amy (voice): In bed above, we're deep asleep,
While greater love lies further deep. This dream must end, The world must know, We all depend on the beast below.
[edit] Victory of the Daleks [5.3]
- (17 April 2010)
- The Doctor: Amy, Winston Churchill!
- Churchill: Doctor... is it you?
- The Doctor: Winston, my old friend!
- [Churchill puts out his hand]
- The Doctor: Ha! Every time!
- Amy: What's he after?
- The Doctor: TARDIS key, of course.
- Churchill: Think of what I could achieve with your remarkable machine, Doctor! Think of the lives that could be saved.
- The Doctor: Ah, doesn't work like that.
- Churchill: Must I take it by force?
- The Doctor: I'd like to see you try.
- Churchill: [Beat, then to the soldiers] At ease.
- Dalek: Would you care for some tea?
- The Doctor: [slaps tea from Dalek's tea tray] Stop this! What are you doing here? What do you want?!
- Dalek: We seek only to help you.
- The Doctor: To do what?
- Dalek: To win the war.
- The Doctor: Really? Which war?
- Dalek: I do not understand.
- The Doctor: This war against the Nazis or your war against the rest of the universe? The war against all lifeforms that are not Dalek?
- Dalek: I do not understand. I am your soldier.
- The Doctor: Okay, okay! [Picks up a large spanner] Okay, soldier, defend yourself! [beats Dalek with spanner repeatedly]
- Bracewell: What the devil?!
- Dalek: You do not require tea?
- Bracewell: Stop him! Prime Minister, please!
- Churchill: Doctor!
- The Doctor: Come on!
- Churchill: What the devil?
- The Doctor: Come on! Fight back! I know you will!
- Bracewell: I must protest!
- The Doctor: You hate me! You want to kill me! Well, go on! Kill me! Kill me!
- Amy: Doctor, be careful!
- Dalek: Please desist from striking me. I am your soldier.
- The Doctor: [He accentuates each word by hitting the Dalek each time] You — are — my — enemy! — and I am yours! You are everything I despise. The worst thing in all creation. I've defeated you. Time and time again, I've defeated you. I sent you back into the Void. I saved the whole of reality from you. I am the Doctor, and you are the Daleks!
- [He kicks the Dalek backwards]
- Dalek: [beat] Correct.
- Amy: So what do we do? Is this what we do now? Chase after them?
- The Doctor: This is what I do, yeah, and it's dangerous, so you wait here.
- Amy: So I've got to stay safe down here... in the middle of the London Blitz?!
- The Doctor: Safest it gets around me.
- [He closes the door and the TARDIS disappears, leaving Amy and Churchill.]
- Amy: Well, what does he expect us to do now?
- Churchill: KBO, of course.
- Amy: What?
- Churchill: Keep Buggering On.
- The Doctor: The question is, what do we do now? Either you turn off your clever machine or I'll blow you and you new paradigm into eternity.
- Supreme Dalek: And yourself.
- The Doctor: Occupational hazard.
- Strategist Dalek: Scan reveals nothing; TARDIS self destruct device non-existent!
- The Doctor: All right, [takes a bite out of the 'self-destruct'] it's a Jammie Dodger, but I was promised tea!
- The Doctor: You're bluffing! There isn't a sincere bone in your body [wthout pausing] there isn't a bone in your body.
[edit] The Time of Angels [5.4]
- (24 April 2010)
- [The Doctor and Amy are standing over an exhibit in a museum, a futuristic black box]
- The Doctor: The writing... the graffiti: Old High Gallifreyan. [dramatically] The lost language of the Time Lords. There were days, there were many days, where these words could burn stars, raise up empires, and topple gods.
- Amy: What does this one say?
- The Doctor: [hesitates, then, exasperatedly] "Hello sweetie".
- River Song: Use the stabilisers!
- The Doctor: It doesn't have stabilisers!
- River Song: The blue switches!
- The Doctor: The blue ones don't do anything, they're just... blue!
- River Song: Yes they're blue: they're the blue stabilisers! [presses the button and the TARDIS indeed stabilises] See?
- The Doctor: Yeah? Well, it's boring now, isn't it? They're boring-ers! They're blue... boring-ers!
- Amy: Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS?
- The Doctor: You call that flying the TARDIS? [scoffs] Ha!
- River Song: Okay, I've mapped the probability vectors, done a foldback on the temporal isometry, charted the ship to its destination and... [presses a button, the cloister bell clangs] parked us right alongside.
- The Doctor: Parked us? But we haven't landed!
- River Song: Of course we've landed; I just landed her.
- The Doctor: But it didn't make the noise.
- River Song: What noise?
- The Doctor: You know, the... [does an impression of the TARDIS materialisation sound]
- River Song: It's not supposed to make that noise. You leave the brakes on.
- The Doctor: Yes, well, it's a brilliant noise. I love that noise.
- The Doctorsuddenly noticing something wrong] Oh...
- Amy: What's wrong?
- River Song: [noticing the exact same thing] Oh.
- [Camera pans onto several statues]'
- The Doctor: Exactly.
- River Song: How could we not notice that?
- The Doctor: Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick.
- Father Octavian: What's wrong, sir?
- The Doctor: Nobody move; everybody, stay exactly where you are. Bishop, I am truly sorry, I've made a mistake, and we're all in terrible danger.
- Father Octavian: What danger?
- River Song: The Aplans.
- Father Octavian: The Aplans?
- River Song: They've got two heads.
- Father Octavian: Yeah I get that, so?
- The Doctor: So why don't the statues?
- The Doctor: Amy Pond, you are magnificent, and I'm sorry.
- Amy: It's okay, I understand. You've got to leave me.
- The Doctor: Oh no, I'm not leaving you, never! I'm sorry about this! [bites her hand]
- [Amy yelps and grabs her hand]
- The Doctor: There, see? Not stone, now run!
- Amy: You bit me!
- The Doctor: Yeah, and you're alive.
- Amy: Oh, I've got a mark, look at my hand!
- The Doctor: And you're alive! Did I mention?
- Amy: Blimey, your teeth, have you got space teeth?!
- The Doctor: Yeah, alive, all I'm saying!
- The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap, if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap.
- Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir?
- The Doctor: Me. [fires gun at the grav-globe]
[edit] Flesh and Stone [5.5]
- (1 May 2010)
- Amy Pond: What if the gravity fails?
- The Doctor: I've thought about that.
- Amy Pond: And?
- The Doctor: We'll all plunge to our deaths. See? I've thought about it! [examines the door] Ah, the security protocols are still live. There's no way to override them; it's impossible!
- River Song: How impossible?
- The Doctor: Two minutes.
- Father Octavian: [asking about the Doctor] Dr. Song, I've lost good Clerics today. Do you trust this man?
- River Song: I absolutely trust him.
- Father Octavian: He's not some kind of madman?
- River Song: [beat] I absolutely trust him.
- Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir.
- The Doctor: Ah, there you are, Angel Bob. How's life? Sorry, bad subject.
- Angel Bob: The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve.
- The Doctor: Achieve? We're not achieving anything. We're just hanging, it's nice in here: consoles; comfy chairs; a forest... how's things with you?
- Angel Bob: The Angels are feasting, sir. Soon we will be able to absorb enough power to consume this vessel, this world, and all the stars and worlds beyond.
- The Doctor: Yeah, but we've got comfy chairs. Did I mention?
- Angel Bob: We have no need for comfy chairs.
- The Doctor: [amused] I made him say "comfy chairs".
- Father Octavian: Our mission is to make this wreckage safe and neutralise the Angels. Until that is achieved-
- River Song: [Strained] Father Octavian, when the Doctor's in the room, your one and only 'mission' is to keep him alive long enough to get everyone else home! And trust me, it's not easy! Now if he's dead back there, I'll never forgive myself. And if he's alive, I'll never forgive him. [Pause] And Doctor, you're standing right behind me, aren't you?
- The Doctor: Oh yeah.
- River Song: [Lovingly] I hate you.
- The Doctor: You don't.
- River Song: You. Me. Handcuffs. Must it always end this way?
- The Doctor: What now?
- River Song: The prison ship's in orbit. They'll beam me up any second. I might have done enough to earn a pardon this time. We'll see.
- The Doctor: Octavian said you killed a man.
- River Song: Yes, I did.
- The Doctor: A good man.
- River Song: A very good man. The best man I've ever known.
- The Doctor: Who?
- River Song: It's a long story, Doctor. Can't be told, has to be lived. No sneak previews. Well, except for this one: You'll see me again quite soon, when the Pandorica opens.
- The Doctor: The Pandorica. [laughs] [Leans in to River Song and whispers in her ear] That's a fairy tale.
- River Song: [laughs] Oh Doctor. Aren't we all? [smiles] I'll see you there.
- The Doctor: I look forward to it.
- River Song: I remember it well.
- Amy Pond: [Amy walks up] Bye River.
- River Song: See you, Amy.
- The Doctor: Can I trust you, River Song?
- River Song: If you like. But where's the fun in that? [laughs] [River is beamed up to the prison ship]
- Amy Pond: What are you thinking?
- The Doctor: [looks thoughtfully out at the ocean] Time can be rewritten.
[edit] The Vampires of Venice [5.6]
- (8 May 2010)
- [Rory is at his stag party; music is playing; there is a paper cake in the middle of the pub. The men cheer for the "beautiful woman" to come out of the cake, however to their surprise the Doctor pops out instead. Rory shakes his head as he realises who it is.]
- The Doctor: Rory! [feedback whines; music stops] That's a relief! I thought I had burst out of the wrong cake. Again. That reminds me, there's a girl standing outside in a bikini. Can someone let her in, give her a jumper? Lucy. Lovely girl. [whispers] Diabetic. [everyone continues staring at him] Now then, Rory, we need to talk about your fiancée. [Rory smiles] She tried to kiss me. [Crowd draws breath; Rory is visibly shocked] Tell you what though, you're a lucky man; she's a great kisser! [Glass smashes; Doctor realises what he just said, and looks visibly embarassed/ashamed] ...Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine.
- Doctor: [To Amy] Okay, we go in, say that you're my daughter-
- Amy: Daughter! You look about nine!
- Doctor: Brother, then.
- Amy No, too weird. Fiancé.
- The Doctor: It's a lot to take in, isn't it? Tiny box, huge room inside; what's that about? Let me explain...
- Rory: It's another dimension.
- The Doctor: It's basically another dimen- what?
- Rory: After what happened with Prisoner Zero, I've been reading up on all the latest scientific theories. FTL travel, parallel universes.
- The Doctor: I like the bit when someone says "It's bigger on the inside!" I always look forward to that. [The Doctor looks annoyed, then grins]
- [The Doctor looks in a mirror]
- The Doctor: Hello, handsome.
- Calvierri Girls: Who are you?
- [Looks at the mirror and then at the girls, realising that they cast no reflection]
- The Doctor: How are you doing that? I am loving it! You're like Houdini, only five slightly scary girls. And he was shorter... will be shorter. I'm rambling.
- Calvierri Girls (all): I'll ask you again, signore: who are you?
- The Doctor: Why don't you check this out? [Shows them a card with a picture of the w:First Doctor; long pause as the girls look confused; he looks at the card and remembers that he has left the psychic paper with Rory] Library card, of course! It's with... he's [gestures in front of his face to imitate Rory's long nose]... I need a spare. [Beat] Pale, creepy girls who don't like sunlight... and can't be seen... ah, am I thinking what I think I'm thinking? But the city, why shut down the city?
- Calvierri Girls: Leave now, signore, or we shall call for the steward. [smile darkly] If you're lucky.
- The Doctor: [camp] Ooh!
- [The girls suddenly grow long fangs and start to approach the Doctor; he goes to the stairs, then spins around toward them]
- The Doctor: Tell me the whole plan! [The girls hiss, Doctor turns to face camera] ...one day that'll work. [turns to face the girls, backing away] Listen, I would love to stay, but this whole thing... I mean, I'm thrilled! Oh, this is Christmas!
- Amy: Hey, look at this. I got my spaceship, I got my boys... my work here is done. [struts into the TARDIS, head held high]
- Rory: [scoffs] We are not her "boys."
- The Doctor: [beat] Yeah, we are.
- Rory: Yeah, we are.
- [As the Doctor is about to enter the Tardis, everything falls silent; there is no sound from anything. Looks back, and is stunned to see every living thing in the Venecian marketplace - people, animals, ect. - have mysteriously disappeared].
- The Doctor: Rory, listen to that.
- Rory: Er, what? All I can hear is...silence.
- The Doctor: Exactly.
- [The Doctor and Rory step back into the TARDIS, The Doctor visibly unnerved]
- Signora Rosanna Calvierri: [voiceover] There were cracks. Through some we saw silence and the end of all things...
[edit] Amy's Choice [5.7]
- (15 May 2010)
- The Doctor: You've swallowed a planet!
- Amy: I'm pregnant.
- The Doctor: You're huge!
- Amy: Yeah, I'm pregnant!
- The Doctor: Look at you: when worlds collide!
- Amy: Doctor, I'm pregnant.
- The Doctor: Oh, look at you both. Five years later, and you haven't changed a bit! Apart from age, and size...
- Amy: Oh, it's good to see you, Doctor.
- The Doctor: ...are you pregnant?
- The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case... always use force!
- Amy: Shall I run and get the manual?
- The Doctor: I threw it in a supernova.
- Amy: You threw the manual in a supernova? Why?
- The Doctor: Because I disagreed with it! Now stop talking to me when I'm cross!
- The Dream Lord: If you die in the dream, you wake up in reality. Healthy recovery in next to no time. Ask me what happens if you die in reality.
- Rory: What happens?
- The Dream Lord: You die, stupid. That's why it's called "reality".
- Amy: Put these on. Both of you.
- Rory: Oh. A poncho. The biggest crime against fashion since lederhosen.
- Amy: Ah. Here we go. Ah, my boys, my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a Peruvian folk band.
- The Dream Lord: It's make your mind up time... in both worlds.
- The Doctor: Bye. I need to find my friends.
- The Dream Lord: Friends? Is that the right word for the people you acquire? Friends are people you stay in touch with. Your friends never see you again once they've grown up. The old man prefers the company of the young, does he not?
[edit] The Hungry Earth [5.8]
- (22 May 2010)
- The Doctor: Oh, look, a big mining thing. Oh, I love a big mining thing. See? Way better than Rio. Rio doesn't have a big mining thing.
- Amy: We're not going to have a look, are we?
- The Doctor: Let's go and have a look.
- Tony: You're not making sense, man!
- The Doctor: Excuse me, I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up.
- Elliot: Soon as I'm old enough, I'll be off.
- The Doctor: I was the same where I grew up.
- Elliot: Did you get away?
- The Doctor: Yeah.
- Elliot: Do you ever miss it?
- The Doctor: [Beat] So much.
- Elliot: Is it monsters coming? Have you met monsters before?
- The Doctor: Yeah.
- Elliot: You scared of them?
- The Doctor: No, they're scared of me.
- [Amy awakens in a confined box with a glass lid.]
- Amy Pond: Let me out. Can anyone here me?! I'm alive in here! Let me out! I know you're out there. My name is Amy Pond and you better get me the hell out of here or, so help me, I'm gonna kick your backside!
- [A Silurian appears on the other side of the glass lid.]
- Silurian: Shhhh...
- Amy Pond: Did you just shush me? Did you just shush ME?!
- The Doctor: How many are you?
- Alaya: I'm the last of my species.
- The Doctor: Really? No. "Last of the species", the Klempari Defence. As an interrogation defence, it's a bit old hat, I'm afraid.
- Alaya: I'm the last of my species.
- The Doctor: No. You're really not. Because I'm the last of my species and I know how it sits in a heart. So don't insult me.
[edit] Cold Blood [5.9]
- (29 May 2010)
- The Doctor: There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them. This is an opportunity! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!
- The Doctor: Bringing things to order, the first meeting of the representatives of the human race and homo reptilia is now in session. [laughs] Never said that before. That's fab.
- The Doctor: [Urgently] Keep him in your mind. If you forget him, you'll lose him forever.
- Amy: [Sobbing] Back at the Byzantium... I still remember the clerics, because I'm a time traveller now, you said —
- The Doctor: No. They weren't part of your world. This is different, this is your own history changing!
- Amy: Tell me it's going to be okay! You have to make it okay!
- The Doctor: It's going be hard, but you can do it, Amy! Tell me about Rory, eh? Fantastic Rory! Funny Rory! Gorgeous Rory! Amy, listen to me. Do exactly as I say. Amy, please keep concentrating. You can do this!
- Amy: I can't!
- The Doctor: You can! You can do it. I can't help you unless you do it, Come on, you can still save his memory. Come on, Amy! [Flashbacks] Please, come on, Amy, come on. Amy, please. Don't let anything distract you! [Flashbacks] Remember Rory. Keep remembering. Rory's only alive in your memory. You must keep hold of him. Don't let anything distract you. Rory still lives in your mind.
- [The TARDIS suddenly shudders, knocking them to the ground and breaking her concentration]
- Amy: [Brightly] Sorry, what were you saying?
[edit] Vincent and the Doctor [5.10]
We're so lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lighter blue. And blowing through the blueness and the blackness, the winds swirling through the air. And there shining, burning, bursting through, the stars! Can you see how they roll their light? Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes!
- (5 June 2010)
- Amy: Please tell me you have a plan.
- The Doctor: No, I have a thing. It's like a plan, but with more greatness.
- Vincent: But you’re not armed!
- The Doctor: I am!
- Vincent: What with?
- The Doctor: Overconfidence, this, and a small screwdriver. I’m absolutely sorted.
- Vincent: Hold my hand, Doctor. Try to see what I see. We're so lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lighter blue. [the starscape slowly transforms into The Starry Night] And blowing through the blueness and the blackness, the winds swirling through the air. And there shining, burning, bursting through, the stars! Can you see how they roll their light? Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
- Doctor: I’ve seen many things, my friend, but you’re right: nothing quite as wonderful as the things you see.
- [The Doctor has taken Vincent forward in time to the van Gogh exhibition in Musée d'Orsay, 2010]
- The Doctor: Dr Black? We met a few days ago; I asked you about The Church at Auvers.
- Dr Black: Ah, yes; glad to be of help. You were nice about my tie.
- The Doctor: And today is another cracker if I may say so. [steering Dr Black into Vincent's vicinity] But I just wondered between you and me in 100 words where do you think Van Gogh rates in the history of art?
- Dr Black: Well... big question, but to me, van Gogh is the finest painter of them all; certainly the most popular great painter of all time: The most beloved; his command of colour; the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world... no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.
- [Vincent, already in shock, starts breaking down in tears]
- Doctor: Oh, Vincent, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, is it too much?
- Vincent: No, they are tears of joy! Thank you sir, thank you! [kisses Dr Black in gratitude] Sorry about the beard.
- The Doctor: The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.
[edit] The Lodger [5.11]
- (12 June 2010)
- The Doctor: Ah you want to see my credentials… [shows psychic paper] There, national insurance number... [passes psychic paper behind his back] NHS number... [passes psychic paper behind his back again] References.
- Craig: [incredulous] Is that a reference from the Archbishop of Canterbury?!
- The Doctor: I'm his special favourite. Shhh.
- Craig: Where did you learn to cook?
- The Doctor: Paris in the 18th century. No, hang on, that's not recent is it? 17th? No no, 20th. Sorry, I'm not used to doing it in the right order.
- Craig: Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?
- The Doctor: They never really stop.
- Craig: If you ever need me out of your hair, just give me a shout. [winks]
- The Doctor: [winks back, pause] ... Why would I want that?
- Craig: Well, in case you want to bring someone over? Like a girlfriend, or... [looks at the Doctor's clothes] boyfriend?
- The Doctor: Oh! Oh, yes, yes, I will. I will shout, something like... "I was not expecting this!"
- [After the Doctor single-handedly wins a football match]
- Shaun: You are so on the team! We've got the cup next week and we are going to annihilate them!
- The Doctor: [sternly] Annihilate? No. No violence, do you understand me? Not while I'm around. Not today, not ever. I'm the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm.
- [Shaun looks at him like he's crazy]
- The Doctor: And you basically meant beat them in a football match, didn't you?
- Shaun: Yeah.
- The Doctor: ...Lovely. [grins] What sort of time?
[edit] The Pandorica Opens [5.12]
- (19 June 2010)
- The Doctor: [about what is in the Pandorica] There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.
- Amy: How did it end up in there?
- The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.
- River: [to Amy] I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him.
- [After hearing the Daleks in the Pandorica room]
- Amy: Daleks. Those are Daleks.
- River: Daleks, Doctor.
- The Doctor: Yes. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Dalek fleet. A bit over 12,000 battle ships all armed to the teeth. Ahahh! But we've got surprise on our side! They'll never expect three people to attack 12,000 battle ships cause we'd be killed instantly, so it would be a very short surprise. Forget surprise. [Hits his head with his sonic screwdriver]
- [A Cyber-arm fires at the Doctor and Amy, who retreat behind the Pandorica]
- Amy: What was that?!
- The Doctor: Okay, need a proper look. Gotta draw its fire, give it a target.
- Amy: How?
- Doctor: You know how I sometimes have really brilliant ideas?
- Amy: Yes...
- The Doctor: Sorry.
- [The Doctor runs out from behind the Pandorica]
- The Doctor: [shouting] Look at me, I'm a target!
- The Doctor: Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe! But, bad news, everyone, [Doctor jumps up from inside Stonehenge] 'cause guess who! Ha! Listen, you lot! You're all whizzing about. It's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute, because I! Am! Talking!!
- [The ships stop instantly]
- The Doctor: Now the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? [Pause] Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else I don't have: Anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly, little spaceship with all your silly, little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.
- [The battleships all flee to a much higher orbit]
- The Doctor: [to Rory] That should keep them squabbling for half an hour.
- The Doctor: The universe is big, it's vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.
- The Doctor: Plastic Romans. Duplicates, driven by the Nestene Consciousness, eh? Deep cover, but what for? What are you doing? [looking to the Pandorica] What's in there, eh? What's coming out?
- Auton Roman: The Pandorica is ready.
- The Doctor: What, you mean it's open?
- Supreme Dalek: You have been scanned... assessed... understood, Doctor.
- The Doctor: Scanned? Scanned by what, a box?
- Cyberman: Your limits and capacities have been extrapolated.
- [A group of Judoon and Sontarans materialize]
- Sontaran: The Pandorica is ready!
- The Doctor: Ready for what?
- Supreme Dalek: Ready for you.
- [The Romans drag the Doctor toward and restrain him inside the Pandorica]
- The Doctor: Now, you lot, working together. An alliance... how is that possible?
- Supreme Dalek: The Cracks in the skin of the universe.
- Sontaran: All of reality is threatened!
- Cyberman: All universes will be deleted.
- The Doctor: What? And you've come to me for help?
- Sontaran: No! We will save the universe! From you!
- The Doctor: From me?
- Cyberman: All projections correlate. All evidence concurs. The Doctor will destroy the universe.
- The Doctor: No. No. No, you've got it wrong.
- Cyberman: The Pandorica was constructed to ensure the safety of the Alliance.
- Supreme Dalek: A scenario was devised from the memories of your companion.
- Sontaran: A trap the Doctor could not resist.
- Supreme Dalek: The Cracks are the work of the Doctor! It is confirmed!
- The Doctor: No! No! No, not me! The TARDIS! And I'm not in the TARDIS, am I?
- Supreme Dalek: Only the Doctor can pilot the TARDIS.
- The Doctor: Please! Listen to me!
- Supreme Dalek: You will be prevented!
- The Doctor: Total event collapse! Every sun will supernova! Every moment in history! The whole universe will never have existed! Please! Listen to me!
- Cyberman: [clenches fist] Seal the Pandorica.
- The Doctor: No! Please listen to me! The TARDIS is exploding right now and I'm the only one who can stop it! LISTEN TO ME!
- [The Pandorica closes]
[edit] The Big Bang [5.13]
- (26 June 2010)
- The Doctor: [Gestures to the Pandorica] Don't worry. She'll be safe.
- Rory: That's not what I'm worried about.
- The Doctor: She'll be fine! Nothing can get into this box
- Rory: [Scoffs] Well, you got in there.
- The Doctor: Well, there's only one of me. I counted.
- Rory: This box needs a guard. I killed the last one.
- The Doctor: No. Rory, no. Don't even think about it. She'll be all alone. She won't feel it.
- Rory: You bet she won't!
- The Doctor: 2,000 years, Rory. you won't even sleep. You'd be conscious every second. It would drive you mad.
- Rory: Will she be safer if I stay? Look me in the eye, and tell me she wouldn't be safer.
- The Doctor: [Sighs] Rory, you--
- Rory: Answer me!
- The Doctor: Yes. Obviously.
- Rory: Then how could I leave her?
- The Doctor: [Exhales] Why do you have to be so.... Human?
- Rory: Because right now, I'm not.
- River Song: I have questions, but number one is this: What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?
- The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
- [Amy takes the fez and throws it in the air, and River blasts it into smithereens.]
- Dalek: You will be exterminated!
- River Song: Not yet... Your systems are still restoring, which means your shield density is compromised. One alpha-meson burst through your eyestalk would kill you stone dead.
- Dalek: Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctor.
- River Song: I'm River Song. Check your records again. [aims for the eye-stalk]
- Dalek: [uneasily] ... Mercy?
- River Song: [menacingly sweet] Say it again.
- Dalek: Mercy!
- River Song: One more time.
- Dalek: Mercy!!!
- [Cut to River rejoining Amy and Rory]
- Amy: What happened to the Dalek?
- River: [coldly] It died.
- River: Amy, he wants to talk to you.
- Amy: So what happens here, Big Bang Two, what happens to us?
- River: We all wake up where we ought to be, none of this ever happens and we don't remember it.
- Amy: River, tell me he comes back too.
- River: The Doctor will be at the heart of the explosion,
- Amy: So?
- River: So, all the cracks in time are closed, but he'll be on the wrong side; trapped in the neverspace: the void between the worlds, all memory of him will be purged from the universe and he will never have been born. Now please, he wants to talk to you be fore he goes.
- Amy: Not to you?
- River: He doesn't really know me yet, now he never will.
- Amy: [to The Doctor] Hi.
- The Doctor: Amy pond: the girl who waited, all night in your garden was it worth it?
- Amy: Shut up of course it was.
- The Doctor: Remember that night you flew away with me?
- Amy: Course I do.
- The Doctor: Then you asked me why I took you with me and I said there wasn't a reason, I was lying.
- Amy: So you did have a reason.
- The Doctor: Your house.
- Amy: My house?
- The Doctor: It has too many empty rooms. Does it ever bother you Amy that your life doesn't make any sense?
- The Doctor: That's why I'm doing this. Amy your house is too big, that big empty house, just you.
- Amy: And Aunt Sharon.
- The Doctor: Where were you mum and dad? Where was everybody who lived in that big house?
- Amy: I lost my mum and dad.
- The Doctor: How? What happened? Where did they go?
- Amy: Uh?...I don't... I don't
- The Doctor: It's ok, it's ok don't panic.
- Amy: I don't even remember.
- The Doctor: There's a crack in time in the wall of your bedroom, and it's been eating away at your life for a long time now. Amy Pond, all alone the girl who didn't make sense, how could I resist.
- Amy: But how could I just forget?
- The Doctor: Nothing is ever forgotten, not really, but you have to try.
- River: Doctor! It's speeding up!
- The Doctor: There's going to be a very big bang, big bang two. Try and remember your family and they'll be there.
- Amy: But how can I remember them if they never existed!
- The Doctor: Because you're special, that crack in your wall all that time, the universe pouring into your head. You brought Rory back, you can bring them back too. You just remember and they'll be there.
- Amy: You won't.
- The Doctor: You'll have your family back, you won't need your imaginary friend anymore. Amy Pond crying over me eh? Guess what?
- Amy: What?
- The Doctor: Gotcha.
- The Doctor: Oh. Ok. I escaped, then. Brilliant. I love it when I do that. [Checks legs] Legs, yes. [Checks neck] Bowtie...cool. [Checks head. Disappointed] I can buy a fez.
- The Doctor:[walks over to a seven year old Amelia Pond] The girl who waited. Come here you. That's funny I thought if you could hear me I could hang on somehow, silly me; silly old Doctor. When you wake up you'll have a mum and dad, and you won't even remember me. Well you'll remember me a little, I'll be a story in your head, but that's ok we're all stories in the end; just make it a good one, eh? Cause it was you know? It was the best, a daft old man who stole a magic box, and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well, I borrowed it I was always going to take it back. Oh that box, Amy you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you, big and little at the same time, brand new a ancient and the bluest blue ever. And the times we had eh? Would've had, never had. In your dreams they'll still be there, The Doctor and Amy Pond: and the days that never came. The cracks are closing, but they can't close properly until I'm on the other side. I don't belong here anymore. I think I'll skip the rest of the rewind, I hate repeats. Live well love Rory. Bye bye, Pond.
- Amy: There's someone missing. Someone important, someone so, so important. Sorry everyone, but when I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend, the Raggedy Doctor, my Raggedy Doctor. But he wasn't imaginary, he was real. [shouting] I remember you! I remember! I brought the others back; I can bring you home too! Raggedy man, I remember you and you are late for my wedding!
- [As Amy remembers, the Doctor and the TARDIS starts to materialise in the room]
- Amy: I found you; I found you in words just like you knew I would; that's why you told me the story, the brand new, ancient blue box. Oh clever, very clever.
- Rory: Amy, what is it?
- Amy: Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue.
- [To triumphant music, the TARDIS returns to the Universe. Amy runs to it and knocks on the door]
- Rory: [In the background] It's the Doctor! How could we forget the Doctor? I was plastic! He was the stripper at my stag do!
- Amy: Okay Doctor, did I surprise you this time?
- [The TARDIS doors open, revealing the Doctor wearing a top hat, white tie and tails]
- The Doctor: Er, yeah. Completely astonished. Never expected that. [steps out of the TARDIS] How lucky I happen to be wearing this old thing. Hello, everyone! I'm Amy's imaginary friend! But I came anyway.
- Amy: You absolutely, definitely may kiss the bride--
- The Doctor: Amelia, from now on, I shall be leaving the... kissing duties to the brand new... Mr. Pond!
- Rory: No! I'm not Mr. Pond. That's not how it works.
- The Doctor: Yeah it is.
- Rory: [looks at Amy nervously] ...Yeah, it is.
- The Doctor: Are you married, River?
- River Song: Are you asking?
- The Doctor: Yes.
- River Song: ...Yes.
- The Doctor: No, hang on, did you think I was asking you to marry me, or, or, or asking if you were married?
- River Song: Yes.
- The Doctor: No, but was that yes, or...yes.
- River Song: ...Yes.
[edit] Series 6
[edit] A Christmas Carol [6.X]
- (25 December 2010)
- The Doctor: Ah, yes, blimey, sorry. Christmas eve on a rooftop, I saw a chimney... my whole brain just went... “What the hell?” Don’t worry. The fat fella will be doing the rounds later. I’m just scoping out the general... chimney-ness. Yes. Nice size. Good traction. Big tick.
- Man: Fat fella?
- The Doctor: Father Christmas. Santa Claus. Or, as I’ve always known him, Jeff.
- The Doctor: Oh, what’s this then? I love this. A big flashy lighty thing. That’s what brought me here. Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. Give me time. And a crayon
- The Doctor: Hi, I'm the Doctor. I'm your new babysitter!
- Young Kazran: Where's Mrs. Mantebarney?
- The Doctor: Oh, you'll never guess, clever ol' Mrs. Manters! She only went and won the lottery!
- Old Kazran: [watching on a projector] There isn't any lottery!
- Young Kazran: There isn't any lottery.
- The Doctor: I know! What a woman!
- Young Kazran: If you're my new babysitter, why are you climbing in the window?
- The Doctor: Because if I was climbing out of the window, I'd be going in the wrong direction. Pay attention.
- The Doctor: Right, so what are we gonna do? Eat crisps and talk about girls? I've never done that, but I bet it's easy. Girls, yeah? [gestures excitedly]
- Young Kazran: Are you really a babysitter?
- The Doctor: I think you'll find that I'm universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult. [shows him the psychic paper]
- Young Kazran: ...It's just a lot of wavy lines.
- The Doctor: [looks at the paper] ...Yeah, it shorted out. Finally, a lie too big. Okay, no, not really a babysitter, but this Christmas Eve, you don't want a real one. You want me.
- Young Kazran: Why? What's so special about you?
- The Doctor: Have you ever seen Mary Poppins?
- Young Kazran: No.
- The Doctor: Good, because that comparison would have been rubbish.
- Young Kazran: It’s gonna eat us!
- The Doctor: Well, maybe we’re gonna eat it, but I don’t like the odds.
- Young Adult Kazran: Abigail’s crying.
- The Doctor: Yes.
- Young Adult Kazran: When girls are crying, are you supposed to talk to them?
- The Doctor: I have absolutely no idea.
- The Doctor: Guys! We’ve really got to go quite quickly. I just accidently got engaged to Marilyn Monroe. [He notices that Kazran and Abigail are too busy kissing to hear him] Is... how do you keep going like that? Do you breath out your ears? Hello, sorry. Hello. Guys! She’s phoned a chapel! There’s a car outside. This is happening now!
- Marilyn: Yoo hoo!
- The Doctor: Right. Fine. Thank you. I’ll just go get married, then, shall I? See how you like that. Marilyn! Get your coat!
[edit] The Impossible Astronaut [6.1]
- (23 April 2011)
- The Doctor: I'm being extremely clever up here and there's no one to stand around looking impressed! What's the point in having you all?
- River Song: Couldn’t you just slap him sometimes?
- Nixon: But... who are they and... what is that box?
- The Doctor: It’s a police box. Can't you read? I'm your new undercover agent on loan from Scotland Yard. Codename: The Doctor. These are my top operatives: [indicates Amy, Rory, and River in turn] The Legs, The Nose, and Mrs. Robinson.
- River: I hate you.
- The Doctor: No, you don't.
- The Doctor: I’m going to need a SWAT team ready to mobilise, street over maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, twelve Jammy Dodgers and a fez.
- Canton: Get him his maps.
- The Doctor: Dr. Song, you’ve got that face on again.
- River: What face?
- The Doctor: The ‘he’s hot when he’s clever’ face.
- River: This is my normal face.
- The Doctor: Yes, it is.
- River: Oh, shut up.
- The Doctor: Not a chance.
- The Doctor: Be careful!
- River: Careful. Tried that once. Ever so dull.
- The Doctor: Shout if you get in trouble.
- River: (Climbing into a tunnel.) Don’t worry. I’m quite the screamer. Now there’s a spoiler for you!
- Canton: So, what’s going on here?
- The Doctor: Er... Nothing. She’s just a friend.
- Rory: I think he’s talking about the possible alien incursion.
[edit] Day of the Moon [6.2]
- (30 April 2011)
- The Doctor: Oh, this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, and has her own gun. And unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that. Kinda do, a bit.
- River Song: Thank you, sweetie.
- The Doctor: I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely kill the first three of you.
- River: Oh, the first seven, easy.
- The Doctor: Seven, really?
- River: Oh, eight for you, honey.
- The Doctor: Stop it!
- River: Make me!
- The Doctor: Oh, maybe I will!
- Amy Pond : [tied to a chair] Is this really important, flirting? 'Cause I feel like I should be higher on the list right now!
- The Doctor: Guys? Sorry, but you're way out of time. Now, come on, a bit of history for you. Aren't you proud, 'cause you helped! Do you know how many people are watching this live on the telly? Half a billion and that's nothing, because the human race will spread out among the stars. You just watch them fly. Billions and billions of them for billions and billions of years and every single one of them, at some point in their lives, will look back at this man taking that very first step and they will never ever forget it. Oh, but they'll forget this bit. [on the phone] Ready?
- Canton: Ready. [presses Amy's phone to a transmitter, which activates a receiver in the lunar module]
- Neil Armstrong: That's one small step for man...
- [The transmission is interrupted by Canton's previous recording of a Silent]
- Silent: [repeatedly] You should kill us all on sight.
- The Doctor: [overlaying shots of humanity rising up against the Silence] You've given the order for your own execution and the whole planet just heard you.
- Neil Armstrong: ...one giant leap for mankind.
- The Doctor: And one whacking great kick up the backside for the Silence! You just raised an army against yourself! And now, for a thousand generations, you'll be ordering them to destroy you every day. How fast can you run? Because today's the day the human race throw you off their planet. They won't even know they're doing it. I think, quite possibly, the word you're looking for right now is "Oops". Run! Guys, I mean us! Run!
- The Doctor: Don't let them build to full power!
- River Song: I know! There's a reason why I'm shooting, honey! What are you doing?
- The Doctor: Helping!
- River Song: You've got a screwdriver. Go build a cabinet!
- The Doctor: That's really rude!
- River: Shut up and drive!
- President Nixon: So we're safe again!
- The Doctor: Safe? No! Of course you're not safe! There's about a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your whole world, but if you want to pretend you're safe just so you can sleep at night, then, OK, you're safe. But you're not really.
- President Nixon: This person you want to marry. Black?
- Canton: Yes...
- President Nixon: I know what people think of me. But perhaps I'm a little more liberal...
- Canton: [interrupting] ...he is.
- President Nixon: [after a long pause] I think the moon is far enough for now; don't you, Mr Delaware?
- Canton: [smug] I figured it might be.
[edit] The Curse of the Black Spot [6.3]
- (7 May 2011)
- Captain Avery: She can smell the blood on your skin. She's marked you for death.
- Rory: She?
- Captain Avery: A demon, out there in the ocean.
- The Doctor: Okay, groovy. So you're just not pirates today — we've managed to bag us a ship with a demon popping in. Very efficient. I mean, if something's going to kill you, it's nice that it drops you a note to remind you.
- The Doctor: [referring to the Siren] OK, so just like a shark in a dress and singing and green. A green singing shark in an evening gown!
- The Doctor: And the gun's back. You're big on the gun thing, aren't you? Freud would say you're compensating. Ever met Freud? No. Comfy sofa.
- Captain Avery: Wheel?
- The Doctor: Atom accelerator.
- Captain Avery: It steers the thing.
- The Doctor: No! Sort of... yes.
- Captain Avery: [Gesturing to various TARDIS controls] Wheel, telescope, astrolabe, compass. A ship's a ship.
- Rory: [about Amy resuscitating him] I know you can do this. Of course, if you muck it up, I am going to be really cross. And dead.
[edit] The Doctor's Wife [6.4]
- (14 May 2011)
- Idris: You're like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions.
- The Doctor: I always read the instructions!
- Idris: There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say?
- The Doctor: That's not instructions.
- Idris: There's an instruction at the bottom. What does it say?
- The Doctor: "Pull to open."
- Idris: Yes, and what do you do?
- The Doctor: I push!
- Idris: Every single time, seven hundred years. Police box doors open out the way.
- The Doctor: I think I have earned the right to open my front doors any way I want.
- Idris: Your front doors? Do you have any idea how childish that sounds?
- The Doctor: You are not my mother.
- Idris: And you are not my child.
- The Doctor: You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just wanna say, you know, you have never been very reliable.
- Idris: And you have?
- The Doctor: You didn't always take me where I wanted to go.
- Idris: No, but I always took you where you needed to go.
- The Doctor: Uh, Amy. This is... well... she’s my TARDIS. Except she’s a woman. She’s a woman, and she’s my TARDIS.
- Amy: She’s the TARDIS?
- The Doctor: And she’s a woman. She’s a woman, and she’s the TARDIS.
- Amy: Did you wish really hard?
- The Doctor: Shut up! Not like that.
- Idris: Hello, I’m... Sexy.
- The Doctor: Ohhh. (Pointing at Amy and Rory.) Still shut up!
- The Doctor: Yes. I mean you could do that, but it just won't work. Hardwired fail-safe. Living things from rooms that are deleted are automatically deposited in the main control room. But thanks for the lift!
- House: We are in your Universe now, Doctor. Why should it matter to me in which room you die? I can kill you just as easily here as anywhere. Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.
- The Doctor: Fear me. I've killed all of them.
- Rory: [to Idris] I don't understand. There isn't a forest in here.
- The Doctor: Yeah, you're right. You've completely won. Oh, you can kill us in oodles of really inventive ways, but before you do kill us allow me and friends Amy and Rory to congratulate you on being an absolutely worthy opponent.
- [The Doctor starts to clap before grabbing Amy by the arm and forcing her to stand. They applaud together.]
- Amy: Congratulations!
- The Doctor: Yep, you've defeated us, me and my lovely friends here at last but definitely not least the TARDIS Matrix herself, a living consciousness you ripped out of this very control room and locked up into a human body and look at her!
- Rory: Doctor, she's stopped breathing.
- House: Enough! That is enough.
- [Amy goes over to Rory and Idris.]
- The Doctor: No. It's never enough. You forced the TARDIS into a body so she'd burn out safely a very long way away from this control room. A flesh body can't hold the TARDIS Matrix and live. Look at her body, House.
- House: And, you think I should, mourn her?
- The Doctor: No. I think you should be very, very careful about what you let back into this control room.
- [TARDIS Energy flows from Idris as she opens her mouth.]
- The Doctor: You took her from her home. But now she's back in the box again. And she's free!
- [The energy streams throughout the room, changing the green light to golden.]
- House: No! Doctor, stop this! OW! Stop this now!
- The Doctor: Oh, look at my girl, look at her go! Bigger on the inside! You see, House?
- House: Make it stop!
- The Doctor: That's your problem. Size of a planet, but inside you're just so small!
- House: MAKE IT STOP!
- The Doctor: Finish him off, girl.
- [House groans and yells and the TARDIS takes back her home.]
- Idris: I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad. I've found it now.
- The Doctor: [whispers] What word?
- Idris: Alive. I'm alive!
- The Doctor: Alive isn't sad.
- [Amy and Rory look on, Rory holding her close.]
- Idris: It's sad when it's over. I'll always be here. But this is when we talked. And now even that has come to an end. There's something I didn't get to say to you.
- The Doctor: Goodbye?
- Idris: No, I just wanted to say... hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you.
- The Doctor: [tearful] Please. I don't want you to. Please!
- [The Doctor steps back as the projection dissipates with a bright light and the familiar TARDIS sound.]
- Idris:[faintly] I love you.
- The Doctor: Uh, the House deleted all the bedrooms. I should probably make you two a new bedroom. You’d like that, wouldn’t you?
- (Rory and Amy have a quick discussion.)
- Amy: Okay. Um, Doctor, this time could we lose the bunk beds?
- The Doctor: No, bunk beds are cool! A bed, with a ladder! You can’t beat that!
- (Rory sighs and gives the Doctor a look. Amy frowns slightly.)
- The Doctor: It’s your room. Up those stairs, keep walking til you find it. Off you pop.
[edit] The Rebel Flesh [6.5]
- (21 May 2011)
- The Doctor: Thirteenth century.
- Amy: Oh, we've gone all medieval.
- Rory: I'm not sure about that.
- Amy: Really? Medieval expert are you?
- Rory: No. It's just... I can hear Dusty Springfield.
- The Doctor: I have things to do. Things involving other things.
- Amy: Well, we'll stay with you. We'll do the other things.
- The Doctor: Nope.
- Amy: Whatever you're up to, I personally like to be a part of it.
- The Doctor: I've got to get to that cockerel before all hell breaks loose. [pauses] I never thought I'd have to say that again.
- Amy: What are all these harnesses for?
- Rory: Ah, the "Almost People"?
- Amy: Are they prisoners, or meditating, or what?
- The Doctor: At the moment they fall under the "or what" category.
- Loudspeaker: Halt, and remain calm!
- [pause]
- The Doctor: Well, we've halted. How are we all doing on the calm front?
- Jimmy: This is insane. We're fighting ourselves.
- The Doctor: Yes, it's insane. And it's about to get even more insanerer. Is that a word? Show yourself! Right now!
- Amy: Doctor! We are trapped in here and Rory's out there with them. Hello! We can't get to the TARDIS and we can't even leave the island.
- [A voice identical to the Doctor's is heard from across the room]
- "The Doctor's" voice: Correct in every respect, Pond. It's frightening. Unexpected. Frankly, a total utter splattering mess on the carpet.
- [The voice is revealed to be the Ganger copy of the Doctor - identically clothed, with the same voice, but with the gelid, half-finished face of the recently-formed Flesh]
- The Doctor (Ganger): But I am certain — one hundred percent certain — that we can work this out. Trust me. [straightens his bow tie] I'm the Doctor.
[edit] The Almost People [6.6]
- (28 May 2011)
- [The Ganger version of the Doctor struggles as the Flesh attempts to register and incorporate the memories of his past incarnations]
- The Doctor (Ganger): [in the voice of the Tenth Doctor] Hello, I'm the Doctor. [back to normal voice, but terrified] No-o-o!… Let it go — We've, we've moved on.
- The Doctor: Listen, hold on, hold on, you can stabilize.
- The Doctor (Ganger): [mingling the style of the Third Doctor with that of the Fourth] I've reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow, I'm the — would you like a — doctor, doctor —I'm, I'm the...
- The Doctor (?): So what's the plan?
- The Doctor (Ganger?): Save them all — humans and gangers.
- The Doctor (?): Tall order — sounds wonderful.
- The Doctor (Ganger?): Is that what you were thinking?
- The Doctor (?): Yes. It's just so inspiring to hear me say it.
- The Doctor [having tricked Amy and others into believing he is the Ganger version]: Interesting. You definitely feel more affection for him than me.
- Amy: No, no — but you're fine and everything, but he's The Doctor — no offense: being almost the Doctor is pretty **** impressive.
- The Doctor: Being "almost the Doctor" is like being no Doctor at all.
- Amy: Don't overreact!
- The Doctor: You might as well call me Smith!
- The Doctor (Ganger): I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
- The Doctor: Why? It's all the eyes say: "Why?" I can feel them — as they work each day knowing the time was coming for them to be thrown away again — not again — please. And then they are destroyed, and they feel death and all they can say is "why?"
[edit] A Good Man Goes to War [6.7]
- (4 June 2011) - BBC preview clip
- Amy: [to her infant daughter] I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved. That you'll be safe and cared for and protected. But this isn't the time for lies. What you are going to be, Melody, is very, very brave.
- Madam Kovarian: Two minutes.
- Amy: But not as brave that they'll have to be. Because there's someone coming. I don't know where he is, or what he's doing, but trust me, he's on his way.
- [Shot of a hand with a sonic screwdriver, on a Cybermen control ship]
- Cyber Leader: Intruder: Level Nine. Seal Level Nine.
- [Back on Demon's Run:]
- Amy: There's a man who will never let us down. And not even an army can get in the way. [Madame Kavorian goes to take Melody] Leave her. Just you leave her. Leave her. [sobs]
- [On the Cybermen control ship]
- Cyber Leader: Intruder: Level Eleven. Seal Levels Twelve, Thirteen, and Fourteen. [explosion] Intruder: Level Fifteen.
- [Back on Demon's Run]
- Amy: He's the last of his kind. He looks young but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you'll never be alone. [kisses Melody's forehead] Because this man is your father.
- [Back on the Cybermen control ship:]
- Cyber Leader: Prepare to engage.
- [Back on Demon's Run]
- Amy: He has a name but the people of our world know him better... [door slides open on the Cyberman control ship, revealing Rory in Roman garb] ...as the Last Centurion.
- Rory: I have a message and a question: a message from the Doctor and a question from me. Where. Is. My. Wife? [The Cybermen do not respond] Oh, don't give me those blank looks. The Twelfth Cyber Legion monitors this entire quadrant. You hear everything. So you tell me what I need to know, you tell me now, and I'll be on my way.
- Cyber Leader: What is the Doctor's message?
- [The entire fleet explodes behind Rory]
- Rory: Would you like me to repeat the question?
- Commander Strax: Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.
- The Doctor: No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away.
- Colonel Manton: You what?
- The Doctor: Those words. "Run away." I want you to be famous for those exact words. [Starts becoming increasingly angry] I want people to call you "Colonel Run Away." I want children laughing outside your door because they've found the house of Colonel Run Away. And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me through the people I love [Calms down] is in any way a good idea... I want you to tell them your name. [Pause] Oh, look, I'm angry. That's new. I'm really not sure what's going to happen now.
- Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men... have too many rules.
- The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
- The Doctor: [to Melody Pond] It's okay, she's still all yours. And really you should call her "Mummy", not "Big Milk Thing".
- Amy Pond: Ok, what are you doing?
- The Doctor: I speak Baby.
- Amy Pond: No, you don't.
- The Doctor: I speak everything. Don't I, Melody Pond?
- [Melody makes gurgling noises]
- The Doctor: [straightens his bow tie, self-assuredly] No it's not. It's cool.
- The Doctor: [Furiously at River] Where the hell have you been? Every time you asked, I have been there! Where the hell were you, today?
- River: I couldn't have prevented this.
- The Doctor You could've tried!
- River: And so my love, could you. I know you're not alright, but hold tight, Amy, because you're going to be.
- The Doctor: You think I wanted this? I didn't do this! This... this wasn't me!
- River Song: This was exactly you. All this, all of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? Doctor: the word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior". How far you've come. And now they've taken a child. The child of your best friends. And they’re going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down. And all this, my love... in fear of you.
- River Song: [Giving Amy the prayer leaf from the cradle] It's your daughter's name, in the language of the forest.
- Amy Pond: I know my daughter's name.
- River Song: Except they don't have a word for pond, because the only water in the forest is the river. The Doctor will find your daughter, and he will care for her, whatever it takes, and I know that. [Slowly, the writing on the prayer leaf is translated into English, revealing the child's name: River Song.] It's me. I'm Melody. I'm your daughter.
[edit] Let's Kill Hitler [6.8]
- (27 August 2011)
- The Doctor: Rory, take Hitler and put him in the cupboard over there, now. Do it.
- Rory: Right. I'm putting Hitler in the cupboard. Cupboard, Hitler. Hitler, cupboard, c'mon.
- Adolf Hitler: But I am the Führer!
- Rory: Right. In you go! [Rory shoves Hitler into the cupboard]
- Hitler [turns around shocked at being shoved around]: Who are you?
- Rory: What's wrong with you? What has she done to you?
- The Doctor: Poisoned me, but I'm fine ... well, no. I'm dying. But I've got a plan.
- Amy: What plan?
- The Doctor: ... Not dying! See? Fine.
- Amy: I don't understand! One moment you want to marry her and now she wants to kill you!
- The Doctor: Well she's been brainwashed so it all makes sense. Plus she's a woman.
[Amy blankly stares at The Doctor.]
- The Doctor: Oh shut up! I'm dying!
- Nazi officer: What are you doing here?
- Melody: Well, I was on my way to this gay gypsy Bar Mitzvah for the disabled, when I suddenly thought, "Gosh, the Third Reich's a bit rubbish. I think I'll kill the Führer." Who's with me?
- Nazi officer: Shoot her.
- Melody [after being shot at to no effect by the patrol of Nazis]: Tip for you all — never shoot a girl while she's regenerating.
- Rory: Okay. Okay, I’m trapped inside a giant robot replica of my wife. I’m really trying not to see this as a metaphor.
- Rory: Doctor, River was brainwashed to kill you.
- The Doctor: Well, she did. And then she used her remaining lives to bring me back. As first dates go, I’d say that was mixed signals.
[edit] Night Terrors [6.9]
- (3 September 2011)
- Alex: He's scared to death of everything.
- The Doctor: Pantophobia.
- Alex: What?
- The Doctor: Pantophobia. Not fear of pants, though, if that's what you're thinking. It's the fear of everything. Including pants, I suppose, in that case.
- The Doctor: When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.
- Alex: No one is going to tell us how to run our lives. I don't care who you are, or what wheels have been set in motion — we'll sort it.
- The Doctor: I'm not just a professional. I'm the Doctor.
- Alex: What's that supposed to mean?
- The Doctor: It means I've come a long way to get here, Alex, a very long way. George sent a message — a distress call, if you like. Whatever's inside that cupboard is so terrible, so powerful, that it amplified the fears of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of time and space.
- Alex: Eh?
- The Doctor: Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire, through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought, and a whole, terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? They're old eyes... and one thing I can tell you, Alex: monsters are real.
- Alex: You're not from Social Services, are you?
- The Doctor: First things first. You got any jammy dodgers??
- The Doctor: Decision: Should we open the cupboard?
- Alex: Wha-?
- The Doctor: Should we? Well, gotta open the cupboard, haven't we? Of course we have. Come on, Alex. Alex, come on. How else will we ever find out what's going on here?
- Alex: Right. But you said—
- The Doctor: Monsters, yeah. Well that's what I do. Breakfast, dinner, and tea. Fight the monsters! So this, this is just an average day at the office for me.
- Alex: Okay, yeah. You're right.
- The Doctor: Or maybe we shouldn't open the cupboard.
- Alex: Eh?
- The Doctor: We have no idea what might be in there. How powerful, how evil that thing might be.
- Alex: We don't?
- The Doctor: Come on, Alex! Alex, come on! Are you crazy? We can't open the cupboard!
- Alex: God no! No, we mustn't!
- The Doctor: Right. That settles it.
- Alex: Settles what?
- The Doctor: We're gonna open the cupboard.
- The Doctor: Look. Wooden chicken. Cup, saucers, plates, knives, forks. Fruit. Chicken's wood. So. We're either inside the doll's house or this is a refuge for dirty posh people who eat wooden food. Or termites. Giant termites trying to get on the property ladder. No, That's possible. Is that possible?
[edit] The Girl Who Waited [6.10]
- (10 September 2011)
- Amy: You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful. [Simultaneously, with Older Amy] Rory is the most beautiful man I've ever met.
- Older Amy: You're asking me to defy destiny, causality, the nexus of time itself, for a boy.
- Amy: You're Amy — he's Rory. Oh, yes I am.
- Older Amy: {leaves her makeshift pavilion & looks at Rory} I'm gonna pull time apart for you.
- Older Amy: Right, okay, this is big news. This is temporal earthquake time. I'm now officially changing my own future. Hold on to your spectacles. In my past I saw my future-self refuse to help you. I'm now changing that future and agreeing. Every Law of Time says that shouldn't be possible.
- The Doctor: Yes, except sometimes, knowing your own future is what enables you to change it. Especially if you're bloody-minded, contradictory, and completely unpredictable.
- Rory: So basically, if you're Amy, then.
- The Doctor: Yes, if anyone can defeat predestiny, it's your wife.
- The Doctor: Come on, Rory, this is hardly rocket science, this is quantum physics!
- Older Amy: The look on your face when you carried her. Me. Her. When you carried her away. You used to look at me like that. I'd forgotten how much you loved me. I'd forgotten how much I loved being her. Amy Pond in the TARDIS — with Rory Williams.
- Rory [to the Doctor, as he prepares to open the TARDIS door]: I'm sorry I can't do this.
- Older Amy: If you love me, don't let me in. Open that door, I will — I'll come in. I don't want to die. I won't bow out bravely — I'll be kicking, screaming, fighting — to the end.
- Rory: Amy, I love you.
- Older Amy: I love you, too. Don't let me in. Tell Amy, your Amy: I'm giving her the days — the days with you, the days to come, the days I can't have. Take them please. I'm giving my days.
[edit] The God Complex [6.11]
- (17 September 2011)
- The Doctor: Amy, with regret, you're fired.
- The Doctor: OK, this is bad. At the moment I don’t know how bad, but certainly we're three buses, a long walk, and eight quid in a taxi from good.
- [The Doctor and Rita talk by Joe's dead body.]
- Rory: Every time the Doctor gets pally with someone, I have this overwhelming urge to notify their next-of-kin. [Rory flinches]
- Amy: What?
- Rory: Sorry. Last time I said something like that, you hit me with your shoe. And you literally had to sit down and unlace it first.
- Rita: [Speaking to the Doctor] What exactly happened to him?
- The Doctor: He died.
- Rita: You are a medical doctor, aren't you? You haven't just got a degree in cheese-making or something?
- The Doctor: No, no, well, yes, both, actually.
- The Doctor: I can't save you from this. There’s nothing I can do to stop this. I stole your childhood and now I've lead you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is I knew. I knew this would happen. This is what always happens. Forget your faith in me. I took you with me because I was vain. Because I wanted to be adored. Look at you. Glorious Pond. The girl who waited for me. I'm not a hero. I really am just a mad man in a box. And it’s time we saw each other as we really are. Amy Williams, it’s time to stop waiting.
- Amy: [standing over the dying Minotaur] What's it saying?
- The Doctor: [speaking the Minotaur's thoughts aloud] "An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent... drifting in space through an endless shifting maze... for such a creature, death would be a gift." [to the Minotaur] Then accept it, and sleep well. [the Minotaur growls and the Doctor reiterates in English] "I wasn't talking about myself."
- [The TARDIS lands in front of a blue house with a red Jaguar parked out front]
- Amy: Don't tell me, this isn't Earth, that isn't a real house, and inside lives a goblin that feeds on indecision.
- The Doctor: Nope. Real Earth, real house, [He hands keys to Amy] real door keys.
- Amy: You're not serious.
- Rory: The car, too, but that's my favourite car. How did you know that was my favourite car?
- The Doctor: Showed me a picture of it once and said, "That's my favourite car!"
- Amy: Rory, um, can I have two minutes? Two minutes.
- Rory: She'll say that we can't accept it because it's too extravagant and we'll always feel a crippling sense of obligation. [He looks back at the Jaguar and Amy] It's a risk I'm willing to take. [Rory approaches the house]
- Amy: Hey. [Beckons the Doctor to lean against the car with her] So, you're leaving, aren't you?
- The Doctor: You haven't seen the last of me. Bad Penny is my middle name. Seriously, the looks I get when I fill in a form, it's...
- Amy: Why now?
- The Doctor: Because you're still... breathing.
- Amy: Well, I think this is about the washing up, personally. [They laugh]
- The Doctor: [Approaching the TARDIS] I mean, you're right, there's still heaps of stuff out there to look at. Do you know, there's a planet whose name literally translates as "Volatile Circus". [Amy laughs and the Doctor looks at the new house] Or maybe there's a bigger, scarier adventure waiting for you in there.
- Amy: Even so, it can’t happen like this. After what we've been through, Doctor… everything. You can’t just drop me off at my house and say goodbye like we shared a cab.
- The Doctor: And what’s the alternative? Me standing over your grave? Over your broken body? Over Rory’s body?
- [The two hug]
- Amy: If you bump into my daughter, tell her to visit her old mum sometime.
- The Doctor: [Looking back at the house] And look after him.
- Amy: Look after you. [She kisses his forehead]
- [The Doctor departs in the TARDIS as Rory comes out of the house with champagne]
- Rory: What happened? What's he doing?
- Amy: He's saving us.
[edit] Closing Time [6.12]
- (24 September 2011)
- Craig: [referring to his baby son] He’s called Alfie. And what are you doing here anyway?
- The Doctor: Yes, he likes that … Alfie. Though personally, he likes to be called Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All.
- Craig: I’m sorry, what?
- The Doctor: That’s what he calls himself.
- Craig: And how’d you know that?
- The Doctor: I speak Baby.
- Craig: Of course you do.
- The Doctor: [to Craig's baby] No! He’s your dad! You can’t just call him “Not Mum”.
- Craig: "Not Mum"?
- The Doctor: That’s you! "Also Not Mum", that’s me! And every body else is [gets near to hear baby] "Peasants"! That’s a bit unfortunate…
- The Doctor: Look around. Ask questions. People like it when you're with a baby. Babies are sweet. People talk to you. That's why I usually take a human with me.
- Craig: So I'm your baby.
- The Doctor: [Cheerful] You're my baby!
- The Doctor: [holding Alfie] Hello, Stormageddon. It’s The Doctor, here to help. Be quiet. Go to sleep. No really. Stop crying. You’ve got a lot to look forward to you know. A normal human life on Earth. Mortgage repayments, the 9 to 5, a persistent nagging sense of spiritual emptiness. Save the tears for later, boyo. Oh, that was crabby. No, that was old. But I am old, Stormy. I am so old. So near the end. But you, Alfie Owens. You are so young, aren’t you? And you know, right now, everything’s ahead of you. You could be anything. Yes, I know. You could walk among the stars. They don’t actually look like that, you know — they are rather more impressive. [uses his sonic to make a starry sky appear on the ceiling] Yeah! You know, when I was little like you, I dreamt of the stars. I think it’s fair to say, in the language of your age, that I lived my dream. I owned the stage. Gave it a hundred and ten percent. I hope you have as much fun as I did, Alfie.
- Craig: The Cybermen — they blew up! I blew them up with love!
- The Doctor: No, that's impossible — and also grossly sentimental and overly simplistic. You destroyed them because of the deeply engrained hereditary trait to protect one's own genes — which in turn triggered a... a... uh... [sighs] Yeah. Love. You blew them up with love.
[edit] The Wedding of River Song [6:13]
- (1 October 2011)
- The Doctor: Imagine you were dying. Imagine you were afraid and a long way from home and in terrible pain. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, you looked up and saw the face of the Devil himself. (pause) Hello, Dalek.
- Supreme Dalek: [Panicked] Emergency! Emergency! Weapons systems disabled! Emergency! Emergency! Emergency...!
- The Doctor: [Removes its headpiece] Hush now. I need some information from your data core. Everything the Daleks know about the Silence...
- Churchill: You mentioned a woman.
- The Doctor: Yes. I’m getting to her.
- Churchill: What’s she like? Attractive, I assume.
- The Doctor: Hell. In high heels.
- The Doctor: Why Lake Silencio? Why... Utah?
- Dorium: It's a still point in time. Makes it easier to create a fixed point, and your death is a fixed point, Doctor. You can't run away from this.
- The Doctor: I've been running all my life, why should I stop?
- Dorium: Because now you know what's at stake! Why your life must end!
- The Doctor: [Picking up the TARDIS phone] Not today.
- Dorium: What's the point in delaying? How long have you delayed already?
- The Doctor: Been knocking about, bit of a farewell tour. Things to do, people to see, there's always more. I can invent a new colour, save the dodo, join the Beatles! [On the phone] Hello, it's me! Get him, tell him we're going out and it's all on me, except for the money and the driving! [to Dorium] I've got a time machine, Dorium. It's all still going on, for me it never stops. Liz the First is still waiting in a glade to elope with me. I can help Rose Tyler with her homework! I can go on all Jack's stag parties in one night!
- Dorium: Time catches up with us all, Doctor!
- The Doctor: Well it has never laid a glove on me! [On the phone again] Hello?
- Nurse: Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to contact you. I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart passed away a few months ago. Doctor?
- The Doctor: [Shocked, stuttering] Yes, yes.
- Nurse: It was very peaceful. Talked a lot about you, if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy, case you came round one of these days.
- Dorium: Doctor? What's wrong?
- The Doctor: Nothing, I... just...[hanging up the phone, sighing, and pulling out the blue envelopes from his pocket]...it's time. It's time.
- The Doctor: If its time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of me.
- The Doctor: Well then. Here we are at last.
- River: I can’t stop it. The suit’s in control.
- The Doctor: You’re not supposed to, this has to happen.
- River: Run.
- The Doctor: I did run. Running brought me here.
- River: I’m trying to fight it, but I can’t. It’s too strong.
- The Doctor: I know. It’s okay. This is where I die. This is a fixed point, this must happen. This always happens. Don’t worry. You won’t even remember this. Look over there.
- River: That’s me. How can I be there?
- The Doctor: That’s you from the future. Serving time for a murder you probably can’t remember. My murder.
- River: Why would you do that? Make me watch?
- The Doctor: So that you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.
- River: Please, my love, please, please, just run.
- The Doctor: I can’t.
- River: Time can be rewritten.
- The Doctor: Don’t you dare. Goodbye River. (He shuts his eyes, and shots are fired. He opens his eyes and sees River smiling.)
- River: Hello, Sweetie.
- The Doctor: What have you done?
- River: Well, I think I just drained my weapon systems.
- The Doctor: This is fixed. This is a fixed point in time!
- River: Fixed points can be rewritten.
- The Doctor: No they can’t! Of course they can’t! Who told you that?
- (And everything freezes. Back to the Doctor telling the story to Churchill.)
- Churchill: Well? What happened?
- The Doctor: Nothing.
- Churchill: Nothing?
- The Doctor: Nothing happened. And then it kept happening or, if you prefer, everything happened at once. And it won’t ever stop. Time is dying, it’s going to be 5:02 in the afternoon for all eternity. a needle stuck on a record.
- Churchill: A record? Good Lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?
- The Doctor: Said Winston Churchill.
- The Doctor: [Stands beside Rory, checking the tanks] The loyal soldier, waiting to be noticed, always the pattern: why is that?
- Rory: Sorry, sir?
- The Doctor: Your boss, you should just ask her out. She likes you, she said so.
- Rory: [Dryly] Really, sir? What did she say?
- The Doctor: Ah, she just sort of generally indicated-
- Rory: [Turns and looks him straight in the eye] What exactly did she say?
- The Doctor: [Stuttering] Well, she said you were a Mr Hottie... ness... and that she would like to go out with you for texting and scones. [Smiles hopefully]
- Rory: [Stares at him] You really haven't done this before, have you?
- The Doctor: No, I haven't.
- Kovarian: Amy. Help me.
- Amy: You took my baby from me. And hurt her. And now she’s all grown up, and she’s fine. But I’ll never see my baby again.
- Kovarian: But you’ll still save me though, because he would. And you’d never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor.
- Rory: Come on, we have to go. Now.
- Amy: The Doctor is very precious to me, you’re right. But do you know what else he is, Madame Kovarian? Not here. [Sticks the eye patch back in place] River Song didn’t get it all from you, sweetie. [She and Rory leave as Kovarian is electrocuted] So, you and me, we should get a drink some time.
- Rory: Okay.
- Amy: And married.
- Rory: Fine.
- River: Those reports of the sunspots and the solar flares, they're wrong. It's not the Sun, it's you. The sky is full of a million million voices saying, "Yes, of course we'll help." You've touched so many lives, saved so many people, did you think when your time came you'd really have to do more than just ask? You've decided that the universe is better off without you. But the universe doesn't agree.
- The Doctor: River, no one can help me. A fixed point has been altered. Time is disintegrating.
- River: I can't let you die!
- The Doctor: I have to die!
- River: Shut up! I can't let you die — without knowing you are loved — by so many, and so much — and no one more than me.
- The Doctor: River, you and I know what this means. We are Ground Zero of an explosion that will engulf all reality. Billions on billions will suffer and die.
- River: I'll suffer, if I have to kill you.
- The Doctor: More than every living thing in the universe?
- River: Yes.
- Dorium: So you're going to do this, let them all think you're dead?
- The Doctor: It's the only way, then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium, too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows.
- Dorium: And Doctor Song: in prison, all her days?
- The Doctor: Her days, yes. Her nights... well... that's between her and me, eh?
- Dorium: So many secrets, Doctor. [Chuckling] I'll help you keep them, of course.
- The Doctor: Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?
- Dorium: But you're a fool, nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you - the fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh and the Question.
- The Doctor: [Saluting, as he exits] Goodbye, Dorium.
- Dorium: [Shouting after him] The first question! The question that must never be answered! Hidden in plain sight! The question you've been running from all your life! Doctor Who? Doctor Who? Doc — tor — Who?!
[edit] Series 7
[edit] The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe [7.X]
- [Madge and the Doctor have arrived in front of a police box]
- The Doctor: I just need to find the key.
- Madge: Do you want me to do it with a pin? I'm good with a pin.
- The Doctor: Multidimensional, triple-encoded temporal interface. Not really susceptible to pointy things.
- Madge: [Unlocks the police box doors with a pin] Got it.
- The Doctor: Okay. Suddenly the last nine hundred years of time travel seem a bit less secure.
- Madge: Are you the new caretaker?
- The Doctor: Usually called "The Doctor." Or "The Caretaker." Or "Get off this planet." Though, strictly speaking, that probably isn't a name.
- Madge: Why are you doing all this?
- The Doctor: I'm just... trying to take care of things. I'm the caretaker.
- Madge: That's not what caretakers do.
- The Doctor: Then why are they called caretakers?
- Madge: [Pauses, caught, then:] Their father's dead.
- The Doctor: [Pause] I'm sorry.
- Madge: Lily and Cyril's father, my husband, is dead, and they don't know yet because if I tell them now, then Christmas will always be what took their father away from them and no one should have to live like that. Of course, when the Christmas period is over, I shall... [beat] I don't know why I keep shouting at them.
- The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy, you remember how sad they're going to be... and it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later? The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.
- Lily: But why would you bring us to this place?
- The Doctor: It was supposed to be a treat, this is one of the safest planets I know. There's never anything dangerous here.
- [A loud thud sounds in the distance, causing the ground to shake.]
- The Doctor: There are sentences I should just keep away from.
- Harvest-Ranger Droxil : Happy now? We're stepping away from our guns. NOW can we interrogate you? [Madge nods tearfully]. We're from Androzoni Major. The year is 5345, and we mean you no harm. Where are you from?
- Madge: England, 1941 [Drawing a gun]... and there's a war on!
- [Droxil looks surprised but unafraid at this turn of events]
- Madge: Oh! Crying's ever so useful, isn't it?
- Harvest-Ranger Droxil : If you say so. But there's nothing you can say that would convince me you're going to use that gun.
- Madge: Oh, really? Well - I'm looking for my children.
- [Droxil's expression changes to one of fear]
- The Doctor: I met the Forest of Cheem, once. She fancied me.
- Lily: What's happening?
- The Doctor: No idea. Just do what I do: hold tight and pretend it's a plan.
- The Doctor: I imagine you'd prefer to be alone?
- Madge: I don't believe anyone would prefer that. Stay close, Caretaker.
- The Doctor: I'll be right outside.
- The Doctor: Happy crying. Humany-whoomany.
- Amy: [Shouting from inside the house] If that is more carol singers, I have a water pistol! You don’t want to be all wet on a night like...[opens the door to see the Doctor]...this.
- [There is an awkward silence]
- The Doctor: I’m not absolutely sure... how long...
- Amy: [Annoyed] Two years. [She squirts him with the pistol]
- The Doctor: [Wiping his face] Okay. Fair point.
- Amy: So. You’re not... dead.
- The Doctor: And a happy new year! [His grin fades at the sight of Amy’s face]
- Amy: River told us.
- The Doctor: [Exasperated] Well of course she did.
- Amy: [Stern] She’s a good girl. [Another awkward pause] Well? I’m not going to hug first.
- The Doctor: [Obstinate] Nor am I.
- [They both stare off into space, avoiding each other’s gaze. Eventually, the Doctor reaches Amy’s eyes and smiles. She laughs, and rushes to hug him. They embrace tightly, Amy still laughing, while the Doctor fights to contain some emotion. She eventually releases him].
- Amy: Mr. Pond! Guess who's coming for dinner!
- Rory: [Emerging from the house] Whoa! Not dead then.
- Amy: We’ve done that.
- Rory: Oh, okay.
- Amy: We’re just about to have Christmas dinner. Joining us?
- The Doctor: If it’s no trouble?
- Rory: There’s a place set for you.
- The Doctor: But you didn’t know I was coming. Why would you set me a place?
- Amy: Oh, because we always do. It’s Christmas, you moron.
- Rory: Come on.
- [The Ponds go back into the house, leaving the Doctor on the doorstep. He enters the house and stands, looking confused. He touches his face and finds he is crying. He smiles tearfully and closes the door]
[edit] Trailers and Commercials
[edit] Prequel to A Good Man Goes to War
- Dorium: Are you mad? You know the stories about the Doctor? The things that man has done? God help us if you've made him angry!
[edit] Demons Run When a Good Man Goes to War
- River Song [voice over]:
- Demons run when a good man goes to war.
- Night will fall and drown the sun
- When a good man goes to war.
- Friendship dies and true love lies,
- Night will fall and the dark will rise
- When a good man goes to war.
- Demons run, but count the cost.
- The battle's won, but the child is lost.
[edit] Prequel to The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe
- [The Doctor, on board a spaceship, is calling the TARDIS phone]
- The Doctor: Amy? Amy? Hello? Amy? It's me, the Doctor. Hello! Bit of a situation.
- Loudspeaker: Intruder Alert!
- The Doctor: I've got my finger on a button. Which is fine but as soon as I take my finger off the button a spaceship is going to explode. [The button panel sparks] Ah-h-h! Which is good in one way because the spaceship in question is about to attack the Earth but bad, in another way, because I'm on the spaceship and I'm gonna get all...smithereened. Now, plan. I'm going to send you the coordinates so you can fly the TARDIS here and rescue me, only three flaws in this plan as far as I can see. One: I don't have the coordinates, Two: you can't fly the TARDIS, Three: [panel sparks again] oh-h-h dear, you're not even there, you left ages ago. Oh well, [sighs] I think I just wanted to chat before all the...smithereening. [Long pause, then whispers] Merry Christmas, Amelia.
- [The Doctor removes his finger and the ship explodes]
[edit] Whoniverse and Other Media
[edit] The Sarah Jane Adventures
- The following quotes occurred on a Doctor Who spin-off series during the Eleventh Doctor's era and are included here for the sake of completion.
[edit] Death of the Doctor [SJA 4.5/4.6]
- (25 & 26 October 2010)
- The Doctor: Good, so gosh, that was different. Hello, everyone!
- Rani: Who are you? Where's Clyde?
- The Doctor: Come on, Rani, use your brain; Clyde and I swapped places, yes, so I'm where he was, he's where I was, which means right now, oh, he's in a lot of trouble.
- The Doctor: Ah, yes, the Claw Shansheeth of the 15th Funeral Fleet; I've been looking for you. Have you been telling people I'm dead?
- [The Doctor and Sarah Jane are repairing the Doctor's space-time swapping device using Sarah Jane's sonic lipstick. Jo Jones is in the background]
- The Doctor: There and there.
- Sarah Jane: [applies the sonic lipstick] Does it hurt?
- The Doctor: No.
- Sarah Jane: I mean the regeneration; that last body of yours; was he okay, I mean?
- The Doctor: It always hurts, and there.
- Sarah Jane: So how did you end up in this place?
- The Doctor: The Shansheeth lured me; a mighty old battlefield just begging to be explored, 'cause I'm travelling with Amy now, and Rory. Then they got married, so I dropped them off on a honeymoon planet, which isn't what you'd think. It's not a planet for a honeymoon; it's a planet on a honeymoon. It married an asteroid. [Sarah Jane and the Doctor laugh] And they nicked the TARDIS. The Shansheeth, not Amy and, err. Fortunately, I had all this wreckage to build a space swapping doodah-thingy-whatsit.
- Jo: So you have a married couple in the TARDIS.
- The Doctor: Mr and Mrs Pond!
- Jo: I only left you because I got married.
- The Doctor: [Quietly, to Sarah Jane] And there.
- Jo: Did you think I was stupid?
- The Doctor: Why do you say that?
- Jo: Well, I was a bit dumb; still am, I suppose.
- The Doctor: [turning to face Jo] Now what in the world would make you think that, ever, ever, ever?
- Jo: We had been traveling down the Amazon for months and we reached a village in Crystalline, and it was the only place in thousands of miles that has a telephone, so I called you; I just wanted to say hello. And they told me that you left, left U.N.I.T, never came back, so I waited and waited, because you said you would see me again; you did; I asked you and you said yes, you promised, so I thought one day I would hear that sound, deep in the jungle; I would hear that funny wheezing noise and a big blue box right in the middle of the rainforest, because you wouldn't just leave; not forever, not me. [starts to cry] I've waited my whole, silly life.
- The Doctor: Oh, but you're an idiot.
- Jo: Well, there we have it!
- The Doctor: No, but don't you see? How could I ever find you? You've spent the past 40 years living in huts, climbing up trees, tearing down barricades. You've done everything from flying kites on Kilimanjaro to sailing down the Yangtze in a tea-chest. Not even the TARDIS could pin you down!
- Jo: Hold on. I did sail down the Yangtze in a tea-chest! How did you know?
- The Doctor: And that family! All 7 kids, 12 grandchildren, 13th on his way. He's dyslexic, but that'll be fine; great swimmer.
- Jo: So you've been watching me? All this time?
- The Doctor: No. Because you're right. I don't look back. I can't. But the last time I was dying, I looked back on all of you. Every single one. And I was so proud.
- The Doctor: Listen to me, both of you. I want you to remember.
- Jo: We are remembering; that's the trouble!
- The Doctor: No no no no no no no. I want you to remember everything. Every single day with me. Every single second.
- Tia: What's he doing?
- The Doctor: Because your memories are more powerful than anything else on this planet. Just think of it, Sarah. Remember it, Jo. But properly. Properly. Give the memory weave everything. Every planet. Every face. Every mad man. Every loss. Every sunset. Every scent. Every terror. Every joy. Every Doctor. Every me.
- Sarah Jane: I remember!
- Tia: No!
- Jo: I remember!
- The Doctor: The coffin was the trap. The coffin was the solution. That's so neat I could write a thesis.
[edit] The Adventure Games
[edit] Episode 1: "City of the Daleks"
- [In the TARDIS]
- The Doctor: 1963. Such a good year.
- Amy: That the year you bought that outfit, then?
- The Doctor: You know, we can go see the Beatles play in 1963 - but the Ice Age is only a click away on the dial.
- Amy: Can I meet John Lennon?
- The Doctor: What? Not Ringo? Why doesn't anybody ever want to meet Ringo?
- Amy: There's no such thing as a sexy drummer.
- The Doctor: You know, I'd never considered that. Then again, why would I? 1963. The Beatles' first two albums. Sean Connery as James Bond, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Mary Quant, John Steed and Cathy Gale. Right now, out there London is the coolest place not just on Earth, but the whole galaxy!
- [He leaves the TARDIS - and finds London reduced to a ruined wasteland]
[edit] Special: The War of Art
- The Doctor: Right. [unlocks the TARDIS doors] This is the Paloma Centre, the biggest collection of art in the universe. We've arrived in the middle of the night, so we can sneak about, without anyone seeing— [Turns and sees an enormous crowd of startled tourists of many different species, all of whom have stopped looking at the artwork and are now looking at him.] Ah. So. Plan B. [Takes a bow.]
[edit] Red Nose Day 2011 Special: Space
- Amy: What are you doing?
- Rory: Helping the Doctor. Um, it's humming. Is that okay?
- The Doctor: Yeah, it's fine. We're just entering conceptual space. Imagine a banana, or something curved. Actually don't, 'cause it's not curved or like a banana. [louder] Forget the banana!
- [The TARDIS has plunged into darkness.]
- The Doctor: Rory, did you drop a thermo-coupling?
- Rory: Sh-Sorry!
- The Doctor: Oh, how did you do that?! I told you, 'Don't drop them!' I specifically mentioned not dropping!
- Amy: I-It was my fault.
- The Doctor: Of course it wasn't your fault.
- Rory: It kinda-kind of was her fault.
- The Doctor: How can it be her fault?!
- Amy: Because it was my skirt and my husband and your glass floor.
- [Beat as the Doctor looks down to Rory and processes this.]
- The Doctor: Oh, Rory!
- Rory: Sorry.
[edit] Red Nose Day 2011 Special: Time
- The Doctor: Oh, this is how it all ends, Pond flirting with herself. True love at last. Oh. Sorry, Rory.
- The Doctor: Ok, we're back in normal flight. The TARDIS is no longer inside itself, the localised time field is no longer about to implode and rip a hole in all causality, but just in case... Pond, put some trousers on.