Ian Chesterton quotes from Doctor Who

Ian

Let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?

Ian

Any hope is better than none!

Ian

We'd better keep an eye on him. He seems to have a knack of getting himself into trouble.

Ian

They're afraid of you because you're different from them. So whatever you do, it doesn't matter.

Ian

No place for a quiet stroll, is it?

Ian

Doctor, I'd just come face to face with myself! I wasn't counting the buttons on my jacket!

Ian

[to Vicki] Don't just stand there and scream, you little fool, RUN!

Ian

Just open the doors, Doctor Foreman.

[To himself.] Eh? Doctor who? What's he talking about...?

Ian

You're treating us like children!

The children of my civilization would be insulted!

Ian

Your civilization?

Yes, my civilization. I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it.

Ian

The whole tribe should be watching. Everyone should know how to make fire.

Everyone cannot be leader.

Ian

No, that's perfectly true. But in our tribe, the firemaker is the least important man.

Ha! I do not believe this.

He is the least important because we can all make fire.

Ian

Yes. But just a minute. They have no pick-up or anything. And only the base of the machine touches the floor. How do they complete the circuit?

Susan

Batteries?

No, no. I believe the Daleks have discovered a way to exploit static electricity. Very ingenious, if I'm right.

Barbara

What, drawing power from the floor?

Precisely. If I'm right, of course. Now, what do we know apart from guessing how they are powered?

Can it be possible then, that this is the end?

Ian

'The end'? What are you talking about?

We have ten minutes to survive.

[The Doctor has sent Barbara and Susan to check the TARDIS doors, and once they are out of earshot he whispers to Ian]: I lied, deliberately, so that they won't know.

Ian

Won't know what?

We have five minutes only. When the end does come, they won't know anything about it.

Ian

There's no hope, then.

I can't see any. Will you face it with me?

I learned not to meddle in other people's affairs years ago.

Ian

[Laughs]

Now, now, now, don't be absurd. There's not an ounce of curiosity in me, my dear boy.

Let's take a snoop.

Ian

Careful, Doctor!

I'm not a half-wit.