Rose Tyler quotes from Doctor Who

My mother's cooking.

Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer!

She's cooking tea. For us.

I don't do that.

She wants to get to know you.

Tough. I've got better things to do.

It's just tea.

Not to me, it isn't.

She's my mother!

Well, she's not mine!

That's not fair!

Well, you can stay there if you want. But right now, there's this plasma storm brewing in the Horsehead Nebula. Fires are burning ten million miles wide. I could fly the TARDIS right into the heart of it, then ride the shock wave all the way out, hurtle right across the sky and end up... anywhere. Your choice.

Get out of the way! [The Doctor is aiming a hand-held cannon at the Dalek.] Rose, get out of the way now!

No. I won't let you do this.

That thing killed hundreds of people!

It's not the one pointing the gun at me.

I've got to do this. I've got to end it! The Daleks destroyed my home, my people! I've got nothing left!

Look at it.

What's it doing?

It's the sunlight. That's all it wants.

But it can't--

It couldn't kill Van Statten. It couldn't kill me. It's changing. What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?

[weakly] Are you... frightened, Rose Tyler?

Yeah.

So am I. Ex... ter... min... ate...

So, it's 200,000, it's a spaceship—no, wait a minute—space station, and uh... go try that gate over there. Okay, off you go.

200,000? [The Doctor nods, and leans back against the wall as Adam exits the TARDIS]

Where are we?

Good question. Let's see. So, um, judging by the architecture, I'd say we're around the year [looks at the Doctor] Two hundred thousand? If you listen, engines. We're on some sort of space station. Yeah, definitely a space station. It's a bit warm in here. They could turn the heating down. Tell you what, let's try that gate. Come on.

[looking out over the Earth] That's...well, I'll let The Doctor explain, he does it better.

The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints. The Doctor doesn't react, still looks out over the Earth] [deadpan] He's your boyfriend.

[deadpan] Not anymore.

It may interest you to know that this isn't actually the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. It's hardly human at all! It's a place where humans happen to live — [unseen creature protests] — sorry, are allowed to live, by kind permission of my client. [points upwards]

[caught off-guard] What is it?

You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?

"That thing", as you put it, is in charge of the human race. For almost a hundred years, mankind has been guided and shaped. Its knowledge and ambition strictly controlled, through its broadcast news — edited by my superior, your master, and humanity's guiding light: The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe! [grins] I call him Max.

Create a climate of fear, and it's easy to keep the borders closed. It's just a matter of emphasis. The right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilize an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote.

So all the people on Earth are, like... slaves?

Now there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave, if he doesn't know he's enslaved?

Yes.

Aww, I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm gonna get, "yes"?

Yes.

[chuckles] You're no fun.

Let me out of these manacles and I'll show you how much fun I am.

[to Rose] Ooh, he's tough, isn't he?

[sternly] When we met, I said "travel with me in space", you said "no". Then I said it was a time machine.

It wasn't some big plan! I just saw it happening, and I thought... I can stop this.

Oh, I did it again. I picked another stupid ape! I should've known. It's not about showing you the universe, it never is. It's about the universe doing something for you!

So it's okay when you go to other times, and you save people's lives, but not when it's me saving my dad?!

I know what I'm doing! You don't. Two sets of us being there made that a vulnerable point.

But he's alive!

My entire planet died! My whole family! Do you think it never occurred to me to go back and save them?

But it's not like I've changed history! ...Not much. I mean, he's never gonna be a world leader, he's not gonna start World War Three or anything.

Rose, there's a man alive in the world who wasn't alive before; an ordinary man - that's the most important thing in creation! The whole world's different because he's alive!

What's the emergency?

It's mauve!

Mauve?

Universally recognized colour for danger.

What happened to red?

Oh, that's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, those misunderstandings, all those Red Alerts, all that dancing.

Know how long you can knock around the universe without bumping into Earth?

Five days? Or is that just when we're out of milk?

All the species in all the universe and it has to come out of a cow...

What's that noise?

End of the tape. It ran out about thirty seconds ago.

I'm here, now. Can't you see me?

I sent it to its room. This is its room.

Are you my mummy? Mummy?

Who has a sonic screwdriver?

I do!

Lights... [looks around]

Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic!"?

What, you've never been bored?

There's gotta be a light switch!

Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?

Doctor Constantine!

Mrs. Harcourt, how much better you're looking!

My leg's grown back! When I come to the hospital, I had but one leg!

[equally confused by events] Well, there is a war on. Is it possible you miscounted?

[to the crowd of people] Right, you lot, lots to do; beat the Germans, save the world, don't forget the welfare state! [to Rose as he fiddles with the ship's controls] Setting this to self-destruct as soon as everyone's clear. History says there was an explosion here, and who am I to argue with history?

Usually the first in line!

Rose! I just remembered!

What?

I can dance. I can dance!

Actually, Doctor... I thought Jack might like this dance.

[speaking as he continues to dance by himself] I'm sure he would, Rose. I'm absolutely certain. But who with?

I will talk to the Doctor.

Oh, will you? That's nice. Hello!

The Dalek stratagem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.

Oh, really? Why's that, then?

We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated!

No.

Explain yourself.

I said no.

What is the meaning of this negative?

It means no.

But she will be destroyed!

No! 'Cos this is what I'm gonna do: I'm gonna rescue her! I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!

But you have no weapons! No defenses! No plan!

Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? [speaking to Rose] Rose?

Yes, Doctor?

I'm coming to get you.