Rose Tyler quotes from Doctor Who

I've got no A-levels. No job. No future. But I'll tell you what I have got: Jericho Street Junior School under-sevens gymnastics team. I won the bronze!

[to the Doctor] Every conversation with you just goes... mental. And there's no one else I can talk to. I've seen all that stuff up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word. Aliens and spaceships and things and... I'm the only person on planet Earth who knows they exist. [a large spaceship crashes into Big Ben and lands in the Thames] Oh, that's just not fair. [the Doctor laughs delightedly and pulls her toward the crash]

Peter Alan Tyler — my dad. The most wonderful man in the world. Born 15th of September 1954.

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.

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!

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.

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?

Installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in. [smiles triumphantly]

And how do we get out?

[still smiling, he looks around and then nods] Ah. [continues smiling]

There's a way out.

What?

There's always been a way out.

Then why don't we use it?

[to Jackie, over the phone] Because I can't guarantee your daughter will be safe.

Don't you dare! Whatever it is, don't you dare!

That's the thing. If I don't dare, everyone dies.

Do it.

You don't even know what it is. You'd just let me?

Yeah.

Please, Doctor, please, she's my daughter, she's just a kid.

Do you think I don't know that? 'Cause this is my life, Jackie - it's not fun, it's not smart, it's just standing up and making a decision. Because nobody else will.

Then what are you waiting for?

I could save the world but lose you.