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Twelfth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

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3rd most-quoted character in Doctor Who: in 192 of its 1,966 quotes
Most scenes with: Clara Oswald (43), Bill (24), Nardole (9)

Scenes with Twelfth Doctor 140

[After Saibra has seemingly been killed]

Are you OK?

DThe Doctor

No. I'm an amnesiac robbing a bank, why would I be OK?

Because of Saibra.

DThe Doctor

What? Saibra is dead. We're alive. Prioritise if you want to stay that way.

PPsi

Oh, is that why you call yourself the Doctor? The professional detachment?

DThe Doctor

Listen, when we're done here, by all means, you go and find yourself a shoulder to cry on. You'll probably need that. Until then, what you need is me!

I've just realised I'm going out for another meal now.

DThe Doctor

Don't worry. Calories consumed on the TARDIS have no lasting effect.

Wha… Are you kidding?!

DThe Doctor

Of course I'm kidding. It's a time machine not a miracle worker.

(27 September 2014)

Are there aliens in this school?

DThe Doctor

Listen, it's lovely talking to you, but I've really got to get on. I'm the caretaker, now. Look, I've got a brush.

Doctor. Is there an alien in this school?

DThe Doctor

Yes, me. Now go. The walls need sponging, and there's a sinister puddle.

What's that?

DThe Doctor

A scanner. I'm scanning. Why do I keep you around?

Because the alternative would be developing a conscience of your own. Scanning for what?

DThe Doctor

Any alien technology in this vicinity should show up. I used to have a teacher exactly like you.

You still do. Pay attention.

CCourtney

What's in the box? It's not really a policeman, is it?

DThe Doctor

You want to know what's in that box? I'll tell you what's in that box! It's a Time Machine! It also travels in space! And it usually contains a man who just wants to get on with his work of preventing the end of the world — but keeps on getting interrupted by boring little humans!

CCourtney

Cool! So that's really a spaceship!

DThe Doctor

I'm serious. I'm trying to save this planet.

CCourtney

End of the world for me tonight whatever you do. Parent's evening.

DThe Doctor

Is your name really Disruptive Influence?

CCourtney

Courtney Woods. Can I go in space?

DThe Doctor

I'll let you know. I may have a vacancy. But not right now.

I'm a soldier, guilty as charged! You see him? He's an officer.

DThe Doctor

I am not an officer!

I'm the one who carries you out of the fire, he's the one who lights it.

(4 October 2014)

Tell me what you knew.

DThe Doctor

Nothing! I told you, I've got... grey areas.

Yeah. I noticed. Tell me what you knew, Doctor, or else I'll smack you so hard you'll regenerate.

DThe Doctor

I knew that eggs are not bombs. I know they don't usually destroy their nests. Essentially what I knew was: you would always make the best choice. I had faith that you would always make the right choice.

Honestly, do you have music playin' in your head when you say rubbish like that?

DThe Doctor

It wasn't my decision to make, I told you.

Kill the Moon
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Do you know what? Shut up! I am so sick of listening to you!

DThe Doctor

Yeah, well, I-- I didn't do it for Courtney. I didn't know what was going to happen. D'you think I'm lying?

I don't know. I don't know! But if you didn't do it for her, I mean… And do know what? It was cheap. It was pathetic. No, no, no, it was patronizing! That was you patting us on the back, saying "You're big enough to go to the shops yourself now. Go on, Toddle along".

DThe Doctor

No, that was me allowing you to make a choice about your own future. That was me… respecting you.

Oh my god, really? Was it? Yeah, well respected is not how I feel! [Clara sobs]

DThe Doctor

Right, okay. Uh...

I nearly didn't press that button! I nearly got it wrong. That was you, my friend, making me scared… Making me feel like a bloody idiot.

DThe Doctor

Language.

Oh, don't you ever tell me to mind my language! Don't you ever tell me to take the stabilisers off my bike! And don't you dare lump me in with the rest of all the little humans that you think are so tiny and silly and predictable! You walk our Earth, Doctor, you breath our air, you make us your friend. That is your moon, too, Doctor, and you can damn well help us when we need it!

DThe Doctor

I was helping.

What, by clearing off?

DThe Doctor

Yes.

Yeah? Well, clear off! Go On! Get back in your lonely… your lonely bloody TARDIS, and you don't come back — and you don't come back.

[Clara storms towards the doors]

DThe Doctor

Clara! Clara!

You go away. And you don't come back. Okay? You go a long way away.

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(11 October 2014)

DThe Doctor

You're doing it again.

Doing what?

DThe Doctor

You're smiling.

Yes, I'm smiling.

DThe Doctor

It's the sad smile. It's a smile but you're sad. It's like two emotions at once. It's like you're malfunctioning.

FFrank

A man just died in front of us, can we not just have a moment?!

DThe Doctor

No! No, no, no, we can't do that, we can't mourn! People with guns to their heads, they cannot mourn, we do not have time to mourn!

DThe Doctor

Well, he has... tried to entice me here before. Free tickets. Mysterious summons. He even phoned the TARDIS number, you know how difficult that number--

So, you knew. You knew that this was no relaxing break, you knew that was dangerous!

DThe Doctor

I didn't know! I certainly hoped.

Okay, this, you see? This is why I'm leaving you, this, because you lied, you lied to me again. And now you've made me lie. You made me your... accomplice!

DThe Doctor

I couldn't risk Gus finding out my plan and stopping me.

So you were… pretending to be heartless?

DThe Doctor

Would you like to think that about me? Would that make it easier? I didn't know if I could save her. I couldn't save Quell, I couldn't save Moorhouse. There was a good chance that she'd die too. At which point… I would have just moved on to the next… and the next, until I beat it. Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose.

Is it (travelling in the TARDIS) like....

DThe Doctor

... Like what?

.... An addiction?

DThe Doctor

Well, you can't really tell if something's an addiction 'til you try and give it up.

And you never have.

DThe Doctor

Let me know how it goes.

FFenton

It's like a forest fire though, isn't it? The objective is to save the great trees, not the brushwood, am I right?

DThe Doctor

It wasn't a fire, those weren't trees, those were people.

FFenton

Community Payback scumbags, I wouldn't lose any sleep.

DThe Doctor

I bet you wouldn't.

Come on, why can't you say it? I was the Doctor, and I was good.

DThe Doctor

You were an exceptional Doctor, Clara.

Thank you.

DThe Doctor

Goodness had nothing to do with it.

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