Tenth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

You want voices in the dark? Then listen to mine! That thing is playing on very basic fears. Darkness, childhood, nightmares, all that stuff.

But that's how the devil works!

Or a good psychologist.

You get representations of the horned beast right across the Universe. In the myths and legends of a million worlds: Earth, Draconia, Vel Consadine, Dæmos, the Kaled god of war. It's the same image, over and over again. Maybe that idea came from somewhere, bleeding through, a thought at the back of every sentient mind.

Emanating from here?

Could be.

But if this is the original, does that make it real? Does that make it the actual Devil?

Well, if that's what you want to believe. Maybe that's what the Devil is in the end: an idea.

But Doctor, what did you find down there? That creature, what was it?

I don't know. Never did decipher that writing. But that's good! Day I know everything? Might as well stop.

What do you think it was, really?

I think... we beat it. That's good enough for me.

[Upon appearing from the TARDIS. To Elton.] Someone wants a word with you.

[angrily] You upset my mum!

[glances at the Abzorbaloff] Great big absorbing creature from outer space, and you're having a go at me?

No one upsets my mum.

Is it me, or is he a bit... Slitheen?

Not from Raxacoricofallapatorius, are you?

No! I'm not! They're swine! I spit on them! I was born on their twin planet.

Really? What's the twin planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius?

Clom.

[taken aback] Clom?

Clom, yes. And I'll return there victorious, once I possess your travelling machine.

Well, that's never going to happen.

Oh, it will! You'll surrender yourself to me, Doctor, [points at Elton] or this one dies. See, I've read about you, Doctor. I've studied you. So passionate, so sweet - you wouldn't let an innocent man die! And I'll absorb him unless you give yourself to me!

Sweet? Maybe. Passionate? I suppose. But don't ever mistake that for nice.

[Kneeling on the grass with his hand out, in spaced-out voice] Mmmm... tickles...

[To the Doctor, who is crouched on his lawn] What's your game?

[Turning round quickly] Snakes and Ladders? Quite good at... squash? I'm being facetious, I... There's no call for it.

[Backing away] I'm a... I'm a police officer, that's what I am! I've got a badge, and a police car, and I can prove it! I've got—[shows psychic paper]

We've had plenty of coppers poking around here, and you don't look or sound like any of them.

[indicating Rose] See? Look, I've got a colleague. Lewis.

Well, she looks less like a copper than you do.

Trainee. New recruit. It was either that or hairdressing.

You know what, they keep trying to split us up, but they never, ever will.

Never say never, ever.

Nah, we'll always be all right, you and me. Don't you think? Doctor?

Something in the air. Something's coming. A storm's approaching...

(voice-over) Planet Earth. This is where I was born. And this is where I died. The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened. Nothing at all, not ever. And then I met a man called the Doctor. A man who could change his face. And he took me away from home in his magical machine. He showed me the whole of time and space. I thought it would never end.

[with Rose on an alien planet] How long are you going to stay with me?

Forever.

(voice-over) Well, that's what I thought. But then came the Army of Ghosts. Then came Torchwood and the war. That's when it all ended. This is the story of how I died.

You're always doing this, reducing it to science. Why can't it be real? Just think of it, though. All the people we've lost, our families, coming back home. Don't you think it's beautiful?

I think it's horrific.

You always travel with a companion. There's no point hiding anything. Not from us. So where is she?

Yes. Sorry, good point. She's just a bit shy, that's all.

But here she is, Rose Tyler! Hm, she's not the best I've ever had. Bit too blonde. Not too steady on her pins. A lot of that [makes a movement with his hand to indicate she talks too much] And just last week she stared into the heart of the time vortex and aged 57 years. But she'll do.

I'm forty!

Deluded. Bless. I'll have to trade her in. Do you need anyone? She's very good at tea. Well, when I say "very good" I mean not bad. Well, I say "not bad"—anyway, lead on. Allons-y! But not too fast. Her ankle's going.

[enraged] I'll show you where my ankle's going!

Her Majesty created the Torchwood Institute with the express intention of keeping Britain great and fighting the alien horde.

But if I’m the enemy, does that mean I'm a prisoner?

Oh, yes. But we'll make you perfectly comfortable.

[confused] Well, if that's Rose Tyler, who's she?!

[indignant] I'm her mother!

Oh, you travel with her mother?!

He kidnapped me!

Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don't tell people I travelled through time and space with her mother!

[annoyed] Charming!

I've got a reputation to uphold!

So you find the breach, probe it, the sphere comes through. Six hundred feet above London, bam. It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality. And that hole, you think, "Oh, shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off? Shall we play it safe? Nah," you think, "let's make it bigger!"

It's a massive source of energy. If we can harness that power, we need never depend on the Middle East again. Britain will become truly independent. But you can see for yourself. Next Ghost Shift's in two minutes.

Cancel it.

I don't think so.

[more angry] I'm warning you, cancel it!

Oh, exactly as the legends would have it. The Doctor, lording it over us, assuming alien authority over the Rights of Man!

Let me show you. Sphere comes through. [points the sonic screwdriver at a glass wall, creating a hole with cracks spreading around it] But when it made the hole, it cracked the world around it. The entire surface of this dimension splintered. And that's how the ghosts get through, that's how they get everywhere - they're bleeding through the fault lines! Walking from their world, across the Void, and into yours, with the human race hoping and wishing and helping them along. But too many ghosts, and... [taps the glass, and it shatters]

Well, in that case, we'll have to be more careful. [to her staff] Positions! Ghost Shift in one minute.

Miss Hartman, I am asking you, please don't do it.

We have done this a thousand times.

THEN STOP AT A THOUSAND!

Look at it, a world of peace. They're calling this the Golden Age.

Who's the President now?

A woman called Harriet Jones.

Ooh, I'd keep an eye on her...

But it's a lie. Temperatures have risen by two degrees in the past six months. The ice caps are melting. They're saying all this is going to be flooded. That's not just global warming, is it?

No.

It's the breach.

I've been trying to tell you - travel between parallel worlds is impossible! The Daleks break down the walls with their sphere...

"Daleks"?

...then the Cybermen travel across, then you lot. Those discs - every time you jump from one reality to another, you rip a hole in the universe! This planet is starting to boil! Keep going and both worlds will fall into the Void!