I’m sorry... I couldn’t save you. I tried! He tried. I couldn’t save him either. Did he really think he could stay apart from the War? Play the dashing romantic hero forever? How full of hope he was… How naïve. How foolish.
The problem with helping my people... is that it often makes things far worse. I don't take orders. If I help, it's on my own terms.
It’s not about causes, Rejoice. I'm steeped in the blood of it all. It's my reason for being: to do the unthinkable, to bring this whole sorry chapter of cosmic history to an end, one way or another. In short... I'm a monster.
No more.
Time Lords of Gallifrey, Daleks of Skaro; I serve notice on you all. Too long I’ve stayed my hand. No more. Today, you leave me no choice. Today, this war will end. No more. No more.
If you have been inside my head, then you know what I've seen. The suffering. Every moment in time and space is burning. It must end. And I intend to end it the only way I can.
Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.
Go back. Go back to your lives. Go and be the Doctor that I could never be. Make it worthwhile...
I don't suppose we'll know if we actually succeeded. But at worst, we failed doing the right thing, as opposed to succeeding in doing the wrong.
Oh... Yes, of course, suppose it makes sense... Wearing a bit thin! I hope the ears are a bit less conspicuous this time.
Doctor Who (1996 film)
It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy, the Master, was finally put on trial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read and sentence passed. Then he made his last, and I thought somewhat curious, request. He demanded that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should take his remains back to our home planet — Gallifrey. It was a request they should never have granted.
[The Eighth Doctor's first words after regenerating.]
Who am I? Who am I? Who... Am... I?!
[Explaining regeneration to a bemused Grace]: Don't you see? I have thirteen lives.
GGrace
Please! Okay, you're trying to tell me that you've come back from the dead.
Yes.
GGrace
No, sorry. The dead stay dead. You can't turn back time.
Yes, you can.
GGrace
I'm not a child. Don't talk to me like I'm a child. Only children believe that crap. I am a doctor.
But it was a childish dream that made you a doctor. You dreamt you could hold back death. Isn't that true? [Beat] Don't be sad, Grace. You'll do great things.
GGrace
Maybe you're the result of some weird genetic experiment.
I don't think so.
GGrace
But you have no recollection of family?
No... No-no-no-no-wait-wait-wait-wait... I remember I'm-I-I... I'm with my father, we're lying back in the grass, it's a warm Gallifreyan night--
GGrace
Gallifreyan?
Gallifrey! Yes! This must be where I live. Now, where is that?
GGrace
I've never heard of it! What do you remember?
A meteor storm. The sky above us was dancing with lights! Purple, green, brilliant yellow... Yes!
GGrace
What?!
These shoes! [Stomps the ground happily.] They fit perfectly!
I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.
These quotes come from Wikiquote's Doctor Who pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.