Ninth Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

You wanna hear a story?

Don't give him more power.

Really short, really short. You know Hemingway. I saw some of his books back there. I met him. I wanted to see how good he was, so I challenged him. "Hemy, baby, write me the shortest story you can". He wrote it in six words. Short as hell! Do you wanna hear mine? I'm born. I die. I'm born.

You are giving me power. But how? I am not connected to you!

No, the engine is connected to me. My stories, my voice. Look. On!

...in the universe can do what we're doing.

Just this once...

I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord.

When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die!

When people need help, I never refuse.

I am definitely not the man I was.

My body is like a barbershop. All of them inside, telling their stories, bickering! I... will not... fail them!

[laughs] You told a never-ending story, and gave me never-ending power!

He's taken out a third of the engine. You can't process that power. Your engine could overload and explode! We'll all be sucked into space!

You will not do that. You will not! No. No! Would you? The stories say you protect life.

That is what I am doing.

Who are you, then? Who's that lot down there? [The Doctor ignores her] I said, who are they?!

They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device on the roof. Which would be a great big problem if--[he pulls a beeping bomb out of his coat] --I didn't have this. So I'm gonna go upstairs and blow it up. And I might well die in the process. But don't worry about me, no. You go home, go on! Go and have your lovely beans on toast. [suddenly serious] Don't tell anyone about this, 'cos if you do, you'll get them killed. [closes the door, then opens it again] I'm the Doctor, by the way. What's your name?

Rose.

Nice to meet you, Rose! [holds up the bomb, shaking it slightly while grinning.] Run for your life!

Who are you?

[turns around] Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? [walks towards Rose] It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cos everything looks like it's standing still. [looks at Rose] I can feel it. [takes Rose's hand] The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... [drops Rose's hand] That's who I am.

If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?

Lots of planets have a north!

The great and the good are gathering to watch the planet burn.

What for?

Fun! Mind you, when I said "the great and the good", what I mean is the rich.

The Gift of Peace. [takes a cutting, hands it to the Doctor] I bring you a cutting of my Grandfather.

Thank you! [hands Jabe's cutting to Rose] Yes, gifts, um... [searches his pockets, clears his throat] I give you, in return, air from my lungs. [gently blows into Jabe's face]

[surprised] How... intimate.

There's more where that came from.

[impressed] I bet there is.

What're you gonna do? Moisturize me?

With acid.

You think it'll last forever: people and cars and concrete. But it won't. One day, it's all gone. Even the sky. [long pause] My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned, like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust. Before its time.

What happened?

There was a war, and we lost.

A war with who? [The Doctor doesn't answer, seemingly lost in thought.] What about your people?

I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left traveling on my own, 'cos there's no one else.

There's me.

You've seen how dangerous it is — do you want to go home?

I don't know... I want... Oh, can you smell chips?

Yeah. [laughs] Yeah!

I want chips.

Me too.

Right then, before you get me back in that box, chips it is. And you can pay.

[pats down his pockets] No money.

[laughs slightly] What sort of date are you? Come on, then, tight wad, chips are on me... we've only got five billion years 'til the shops close!

Can it be that I have the world entirely wrong?

Not wrong! There's just more to learn!

This is precisely the sort of cheap mummery I strive to unmask. Séances? Nothing but luminous tambourines and a squeeze box concealed between the knees. This girl knows nothing!

Now, don't antagonize her. I love a happy medium!

I can't believe you just said that.

The thing is, Doctor, the Gelth don't succeed, 'cos I know they don't. I know for a fact there weren't corpses walking around in 1869.

Time's in flux, changing every second. Your cozy little world could be rewritten like that. [snaps his fingers] Nothing is safe, remember that - nothing.

Give yourselves to glory! Sacrifice your lives to the Gelth!

I trusted you! I pitied you!

We don't want your pity! We want this world and all its flesh!

Not while I'm alive.

Then live no more!

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

It's not just dying. We'll become one of them... We'll go down fighting, yeah?

Yeah.

Together?

Yeah. I'm so glad I met you.

Me too.

She slapped you!

Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother.

Your face!

[defensively] It hurt!

You're so gay!

My mum's here.

Oh, that's just what I need! Don't you dare make this place domestic!

You ruined my life, Doctor. [the Doctor turns and looks at him, irritated] They thought she was dead, I was a murder suspect because of you!

[looks at Rose] See what I mean? Domestic!

I bet you don't even remember my name!

Ricky.

It's Mickey!

No, it's Ricky.

I think I know my own name!

You think you know your own name? How stupid are you?