Tenth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

I was dying. To save my own life, I changed my body — every single cell, but… still me.

(whispering) But… you can’t be.

Then how could I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you, trapped in that cellar, surrounded by shop window dummies, ooh… such a long time ago. I took your hand and I said one word, just one word, I said… “Run!”

Doctor?

Hello!

Can you change back?

D’you want me to?

Yeah.

Oh.

Can you?

No. D’you wanna leave?

D’you want me to?

No! But… your choice, you wanna leave.

What is that?! What's happening?!

[outraged, glaring at Harriet] That was murder.

That was defence. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago.

But they were leaving!

You said yourself, Doctor, they'd go back to the stars and tell others about the Earth. I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all the time; you come and go. It happened today. Mister Llewellyn and the Major, they were murdered. They died right in front of me while you were sleeping. In which case, we have to defend ourselves.

[disgusted] "Britain's Golden Age".

It comes with a price.

I gave them the wrong warning. I should have told them to run, as fast as they can, run and hide, because the monsters are coming: the human race!

Those are the people I represent. I did it on their behalf.

Then I should have stopped you.

What does that make you, Doctor? Another alien threat?

[stepping towards her] Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones! 'Cause I'm a completely new man! I could bring down your government with a single word!

[glaring back at him] You're the most remarkable man I've ever met. But I don't think you're quite capable of that.

No, you're right, not a single word. Just six.

I don't think so.

Six words.

Stop it!

Six. [walks over to Alex and whispers to him] Don't you think she looks tired? [glares at Harriet one more time before leaving with Rose, Jackie and Mickey]

[rushing over to Alex] What did he say?

[nervously] Oh, well, nothing, really--

[frantically] What did he say?!

Uh, nothing, I don't know--

[hysterical] Doctor! Doctor, what did you--?! What was that?! What did he say?! What did you say, Doctor?! Doctor! [quietly, starting to look remorseful] I'm sorry.

Well, I reckon you're mad, the pair of you. It's like you go looking for trouble.

Trouble's just the bits-in-between! It's all waiting out there, Jackie. And it's brand new to me-- all those planets and creatures and horizons! I haven't seen them yet, not with these eyes. And it is gonna be... fantastic!

What's the city called?

New New York.

Oh, come on.

It is! It's the city of New New York! Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York since the original, so that makes it New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New-New New York. [Rose laughs.] What?

You're so different.

[grins] New-New Doctor.

One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his greatest secret. He will speak those words only to one like himself.

What does that mean?

It's just a story.

Tell me the rest.

It is said he will talk to a wanderer, to the man without a home, a lonely god.

I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me.

A great secret...

So the legend says.

It can wait.

[disappointed] Oh, does it have to?!

We shall meet again, Doctor. For the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day...

That is enigmatic. That is-- That is textbook enigmatic.

Queen Victoria

Since my husband's death, I find myself with more of a taste for supernatural fiction.

You must miss him.

Queen Victoria

Very much. Oh, completely. And that's the charm of a ghost story, isn't it? Not the scares and chills, that's just for children, but the hope of some contact with the great beyond. We all want some message from that place. It's the Creator's greatest mystery that we're allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent, and we must wait.

[about the Koh-i-Noor] How much is that worth?

They say the wages of the entire planet for a whole week.

Good job my mum's not here, or she'd be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing.

She'd win.

Queen Victoria

By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee [taps the sword on the Doctor's shoulders] Sir Doctor of Tardis. By the power invested in me by the Church and the state, I dub thee [does the same for Rose] Dame Rose of the Powell Estate. You may stand.

Many thanks, Ma'am.

They're never gonna believe this back home.

Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the Great Beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now, Ma'am, from beyond the grave

Queen Victoria

[sternly] Indeed, then you may think on this, also; that I am not amused.

[jubilantly] Yes!

Queen Victoria

Not remotely amused. [The Doctor and Rose straighten their faces] And henceforth...I banish you.

I'm sorry?

Queen Victoria

I have rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you're exiled from this empire, never to return. [she steps towards Rose and the Doctor] I don’t know what you are, the two of you, or where you’re from, but I know that you consort with stars and magic, and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror, and blasphemy, and death, and I will not allow it. You will leave these shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good, and how much longer you may survive this...terrible life. [she angrily steps away from them] Now leave my world, and never return!

Hello, Sarah Jane.

Sarah

[softly] It's you. Doctor. Oh, my God, it's you, isn't it? [realizing] You've regenerated.

Oh. Half a dozen times since we last met.

Sarah

You look.... incredible.

So do you.

Sarah

Hm. I got old. What are you doing here?

Well. UFO sighting. School gets record results. I couldn't resist. What about you?

Sarah

Same.

Sarah

[emotional] I thought you died. I waited for you. You didn't come back, and I thought you must have died.

I lived. Everyone else died.

Sarah

What do you mean?

Everyone died, Sarah.

Sarah

I can't believe it's you.

Sarah

[her mood brightens] Okay. Now I can.

I don't age. I regenerate. But humans decay; you wither and you die. Imagine watching that happen to someone that you-- [breaks off]

What, Doctor?

You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords.

Sarah

It's daft, but I haven't ever thanked you for that time, and like I said, I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Something to tell the grandkids.

Sarah

Oh, I think it'll be someone else's grandkids now.

Right. Yes, sorry. I didn't get a chance to ask. You haven't... There hasn't been anyone? You know...?

Sarah

Well, there was this one guy. I traveled with him for a while. But he was a tough act to follow. [Sarah and the Doctor laugh] Goodbye, Doctor.

Oh, it's not goodbye—

Sarah

Say it, please. This time. Say it.

Goodbye... my Sarah Jane!

Don't worry Reinette, it's just a nightmare. Everyone has nightmares; even big scary monsters from under the bed have nightmares, don't you, monster?

What do monsters have nightmares about?

Me! Ha!

Oh, such a lonely childhood.

It'll pass. Stay with me

Oh, Doctor. So lonely, so very very alone.

What do you mean, alone? You've never been alone in your life. [pause] When did you start calling me Doctor?

Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now. How can you bear it?

[stunned] How did you do that?

A door, once opened, can be stepped through in either direction. Oh, Doctor. My lonely Doctor. Dance with me.