Doctor Who quotes

Are you going to save me?

I'm going to save my friend, the only way I can! Exterminate!

Now, the real question is: Where did he get the cup of tea? Answer: I'm the Doctor. Just accept it.

You are unharmed.

Proposition. Davros is an insane, paranoid genius who has survived among several billion trigger-happy mini-tanks for centuries. Conclusion? I'm definitely having his chair.

I've been at the heart of your empire for forty-two minutes, and I haven't even got out of my chair! Ask me what I want.

What do you want?

Clara Oswald. I want Clara Oswald, safe, alive, and returned to me immediately! You bring her back -- you do that! You do that now! Unharmed, unhurt, alive.

Your associate--

I saw what happened, I was there! And I'm hoping, for all our sakes, that it was a trick!

It was not a deception.

Because if Clara Oswald is really dead... Then you'd better be very, very careful how you tell me.

Listen to that... The Doctor without hope.

Who's going to tell me? Who's going to go first?

Nobody's safe now.

All the power Davros had is mine! Everything he had, I have! Who's going to tell me Clara Oswald is really dead?!

He'll burn everything. Us, too.

There's no such thing as the Doctor. I’m just a bloke in a box telling stories. I didn’t come here because I'm ashamed. A bit of shame never hurt anyone. I came… because you're sick and you asked. And because sometimes, on a good day, if I try very hard… I’m not some old Time Lord who ran away. I'm the Doctor.

Compassion, then.

Always.

There is a question, Doctor. One I have longed to ask.

Yeah, well, if you're going to put your hand on my knee, it isn't going to go well.

Why did you leave Gallifrey?

Well, because I did.

You stole a TARDIS, and ran and ran. Why?

It's a boring place, Gallifrey. I was going out of my mind.

Yet you long to return.

Ah, well, I'm inconsistent.

But it is always the same lie.

What lie?

You weren't bored. No one runs the way you have run for so small a reason.

Did I do right, Doctor? Tell me… was I right? I need to know, before the end. Am I a good man?

You really are dying, aren't you?

Look at me. Did you doubt it?

Yes.

Then we have established one thing only.

What?

You are not… a good doctor. [After a moment, the Doctor laughs, and Davros laughs with him.]

Come on. I'll take you home.

Which side are you on? Are you the enemy?

I'm not sure if any of that matters. Friends. Enemies. So long as there is mercy. Always mercy.

So who's in charge now? I need to know who to ignore.

(to Pritchard) It's okay, I understand. You're an idiot.

So, we are fighting an unknown homicidal force that has taken the form of your commanding officer and a cowardly alien, under water, in a nuclear reactor. Anything else I should know? Someone with a peanut allergy or something?

Whoa! Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho! Where do you think you're going?!

Out there. Where the action is.

Look, um…

What?

Oh, this is my own fault. I like adventures as much as the next man, if the next man is a man who likes adventures. Even so, don't… Don't go native.

What do you mean? I'm not.

Look, there's a whole dimension in here (spreads his hands out, indicating the TARDIS), but there's only room for one… me.

Wait… wait a second. You just raved about ghosts like a kid who had too much sherbet.

Do you know what you need? You need a hobby.

Oh, I really don't.

Or, even better, another relationship. Come on, you lot, you're bananas about relationships. You're always writing songs about them, or go to war, or gettin' tattooed.

Doctor. I'm fine.

I just… felt that I — I had to say something.

I know, and I appreciated it.

'Cause I've got a duty of care.

(bemused) Which you take very seriously, I know.

So can I stop now?

Please. Please do.

Every time I think it couldn't get more extraordinary, it surprises me. It's impossible. I hate it. It's evil. It's astonishing. I want to kiss it to death.

[speaking to the audience] So, there's this man, he has a time machine. Up and down history he goes — zip, zip, zip, zip, zip — getting into scrapes. Another thing he has is a passion for the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Then, one day, he thinks, "What's the point in having a time machine if you don't get to meet your heroes?" So, off he goes to 18th Century Germany, but he can't find Beethoven anywhere. No one's heard of him. Not even his family have any idea who the time traveller is talking about. Beethoven literally doesn't exist. This didn't happen, by the way. I've met Beethoven. Nice chap. Very intense. Loved an arm wrestle. No, this is called the bootstrap paradox. Google it. The time traveller panics. He can't bear the thought of a world without the music of Beethoven. Luckily, he'd brought all of his Beethoven sheet music for Ludwig to sign. So, he copies out all the concertos and the symphonies, and he gets them published. He becomes Beethoven. And history continues with barely a feather ruffled. [turns on his amplifier and puts on his electric guitar] My question is this: who put those notes and phrases together? Who really composed Beethoven's Fifth? [he plays the opening notes to Beethoven's Fifth on his guitar]

This isn't a potential future. This is the future now. It's already happened. The proof is right there in front of you. I have to die.

No. You can change things.

I can't. Even the tiniest change, the ramifications could be catastrophic. It could spread carnage and chaos across the universe like ripples on a pond. Oh, well, I've had a good innings. This regeneration, it's a bit of a clerical error anyway. I've got to go sometime.

Not with me! Die with whoever comes after me. You do not leave me.

Listen to me. We all have to face death eventually, be it ours or someone else's.

I'm not ready yet. I don't want to think about that, not yet.

I can't change what's already happened. There are rules.

So break them. And anyway, you owe me. You've made yourself essential to me. You've given me something else to, to be. And you can't do that and then die. It's not fair. No, Doctor, I don't care about your rules or your bloody survivor's guilt. If you love me in any way ... you'll come back.