Eleventh Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

She can smell the blood on your skin. She's marked you for death.

She?

A demon, out there in the ocean.

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.

Wheel?

Atom accelerator.

It steers the thing.

No! Sort of, yes.

[gesturing to various TARDIS controls] Wheel, telescope, astrolabe, compass: a ship's a ship.

I don't understand. Who are you?

I'm the— Oh, what do you call me? We travel. I go... [makes the TARDIS materialisation noise].

[disbelieving] The TARDIS?

Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me. I'm the TARDIS.

No, you're not! You're a bitey mad lady! The TARDIS is up and downy stuff in a big blue box!

Yes, that's me: a Type 40 TARDIS. I was already a museum piece when you were young, and the first time you touched my console, you said—

[interrupting] I said you were the most beautiful thing I had ever known.

Then you stole me. And I stole you.

I borrowed you.

Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?

You're the TARDIS?

Yes.

My TARDIS?!

My Doctor! Oh... We have now reached the point of the conversation where you open the lock. [The Doctor unlocks the cage with his Sonic Screwdriver. Idris steps out in front of him] Are all people like this?

Like what?

So much bigger on the inside. I'm... Oh, what is that word?! It's so... big! So complicated. It's so sad...

Bond the tube directly into the Tachyon Diverter...

Yes, yes; I have actually rebuilt a TARDIS before, you know. I know what I'm doing!

You're like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions.

I always read the instructions!

There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say?

That's not instructions!

There's an instruction at the bottom. What does it say?

"Pull to open".

Yes, and what do you do?

I push!

Every single time, seven hundred years. Police box doors open out the way.

I think I have earned the right to open my front doors any way I want!

Your front doors? Do you have any idea how childish that sounds?

[growls] You are not my mother!

And you are not my child.

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!

And you have?!

You didn't always take me where I wanted to go!

No, but I always took you where you needed to go.

Fear me: I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.

Fear me... I've killed all of them.

I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad... I found it now.

What word?

"Alive." I'm alive!

"Alive" isn't sad...

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.

"Goodbye..."

No. I just wanted to say, "Hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you."

You okay?

No. I watched her die. I shouldn't let it get to me, but it still does. I'm a nurse.

"Letting it get to you," you know what that's called? Being alive, best thing there is. Being alive right now, that's all that counts.

Look at you pair. It's always you and her, isn't it? Long after the rest of us have gone, a boy and his box off to see the universe...

Well, you say that as if it's a bad thing. But honestly, it's the best thing there is.

Thirteenth century.

Oh, we've gone all medieval.

I'm not sure about that.

Really? Medieval expert are you?

No. It's just... I can hear Dusty Springfield.

I have things to do. Things involving other things.

Well, we'll stay with you. We'll do the other things.

Nope.

Whatever you're up to, I'd personally like to be a part of it.

What are all these harnesses for?

Ah, the "Almost People"?

Are they prisoners, or meditating, or what?

At the moment they fall under the "or what" category.

Halt, and remain calm!

Well, we've halted. How are we all doing on the calm front?

This is insane. We're fighting ourselves.

Yes, it's insane. And it's about to get even more insanerer. Is that a word? Show yourself! Right now!

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.

Correct in every respect, Pond. It's frightening. Unexpected. Frankly, a total utter splattering mess on the carpet. [a Ganger copy of the Doctor steps out of the shadows - identically clothed, but with the gelid, half-finished face of the recently-formed Flesh] But I am certain — one hundred percent certain — that we can work this out. Trust me. [straightens his bow tie] I'm the Doctor.

[having tricked Amy and others into believing he is the Ganger version] Interesting. You definitely feel more affection for him than me.

No, no— but you're fine and everything, but he's The Doctor— no offense: being almost the Doctor is pretty damn impressive.

Being "almost the Doctor" is like being no Doctor at all.

Don't overreact!

[angry] You might as well call me Smith!

[pulling back the cowl of a monk] These guys never can be... persuaded. [pulling back another cowl] They never can be... afraid. [approaches a third monk] And they can never, ever be...

Surprised!!

Hello, everyone! Guess who? Please. Point a gun at me if it helps you relax.

You're only human.

Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.

No. Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away.

You what?

Those words. "Run away." I want you to be famous for those exact words. [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 [shouting] THE PEOPLE I LOVE... [calmer] 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.

The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men... have too many rules.

Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.