Doctor Who quotes

Guys? Sorry, but you're way out of time. Now, come on, a bit of history for you. Aren't you proud, 'cause you helped! Do you know how many people are watching this live on the telly? Half a billion and that's nothing, because the human race will spread out among the stars. You just watch them fly. Billions and billions of them for billions and billions of years and every single one of them, at some point in their lives, will look back at this man taking that very first step and they will never ever forget it. Oh, but they'll forget this bit. [on the phone] Ready?

Ready. [presses Amy's phone to a transmitter, which activates a receiver in the lunar module]

That's one small step for a man...

[repeatedly] You should kill us all on sight.

[overlaying shots of humanity rising up against the Silence] You've given the order for your own execution and the whole planet just heard you.

...one giant leap for mankind.

And one whacking great kick up the backside for the Silence! You just raised an army against yourself! And now, for a thousand generations, you'll be ordering them to destroy you every day. How fast can you run? Because today's the day the human race throw you off their planet. They won't even know they're doing it. I think, quite possibly, the word you're looking for right now is "Oops". Run! Guys, I mean us! Run!

Don't let them build to full power!

I know! There's a reason why I'm shooting, honey! What are you doing?

Helping!

You've got a screwdriver, go build a cabinet!

That's really rude!

Shut up and drive!

So we're safe again!

Safe? No! Of course you're not safe! There's about a billion other things out there just waiting to burn your whole world, but if you want to pretend you're safe just so you can sleep at night, then, OK, you're safe. But you're not really.

This person you want to marry. Black?

Yes...

I know what people think of me. But perhaps I'm a little more liberal...

[interrupting] ...he is.

[after a long pause] I think the moon is far enough for now; don't you, Mr Delaware?

[smug] I figured it might be.

She can smell the blood on your skin. She's marked you for death.

She?

A demon, out there in the ocean.

Okay, groovy. So you're just not pirates today — we've managed to bag us a ship with a demon popping in. Very efficient. I mean, if something's going to kill you, it's nice that it drops you a note to remind you.

[referring to the Siren] OK, so just like a shark in a dress and singing and green. A green singing shark in an evening gown!

And the gun's back. You're big on the gun thing, aren't you? Freud would say you're compensating. Ever met Freud? No. Comfy sofa.

Wheel?

Atom accelerator.

It steers the thing.

No! Sort of, yes.

[gesturing to various TARDIS controls] Wheel, telescope, astrolabe, compass: a ship's a ship.

I don't understand. Who are you?

I'm the— Oh, what do you call me? We travel. I go... [makes the TARDIS materialisation noise].

[disbelieving] The TARDIS?

Time And Relative Dimension In Space. Yes, that's it. Names are funny. It's me. I'm the TARDIS.

No, you're not! You're a bitey mad lady! The TARDIS is up and downy stuff in a big blue box!

Yes, that's me: a Type 40 TARDIS. I was already a museum piece when you were young, and the first time you touched my console, you said—

[interrupting] I said you were the most beautiful thing I had ever known.

Then you stole me. And I stole you.

I borrowed you.

Borrowing implies the eventual intention to return the thing that was taken. What makes you think I would ever give you back?

You're the TARDIS?

Yes.

My TARDIS?!

My Doctor! Oh... We have now reached the point of the conversation where you open the lock. [The Doctor unlocks the cage with his Sonic Screwdriver. Idris steps out in front of him] Are all people like this?

Like what?

So much bigger on the inside. I'm... Oh, what is that word?! It's so... big! So complicated. It's so sad...

Bond the tube directly into the Tachyon Diverter...

Yes, yes; I have actually rebuilt a TARDIS before, you know. I know what I'm doing!

You're like a nine-year-old trying to rebuild a motorbike in his bedroom. And you never read the instructions.

I always read the instructions!

There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking past it for seven hundred years. What does it say?

That's not instructions!

There's an instruction at the bottom. What does it say?

"Pull to open".

Yes, and what do you do?

I push!

Every single time, seven hundred years. Police box doors open out the way.

I think I have earned the right to open my front doors any way I want!

Your front doors? Do you have any idea how childish that sounds?

[growls] You are not my mother!

And you are not my child.

You know, since we're talking with mouths, not really an opportunity that comes along very often, I just wanna say, you know, you have never been very reliable!

And you have?!

You didn't always take me where I wanted to go!

No, but I always took you where you needed to go.

Fear me: I've killed hundreds of Time Lords.

Fear me... I've killed all of them.

I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad... I found it now.

What word?

"Alive." I'm alive!

"Alive" isn't sad...

It's sad when it's over. I'll always be here, but this is when we talked. And now, even that has come to an end. There's something I didn't get to say to you.

"Goodbye..."

No. I just wanted to say, "Hello. Hello, Doctor. It's so very, very nice to meet you."

You okay?

No. I watched her die. I shouldn't let it get to me, but it still does. I'm a nurse.

"Letting it get to you," you know what that's called? Being alive, best thing there is. Being alive right now, that's all that counts.

Look at you pair. It's always you and her, isn't it? Long after the rest of us have gone, a boy and his box off to see the universe...

Well, you say that as if it's a bad thing. But honestly, it's the best thing there is.

Thirteenth century.

Oh, we've gone all medieval.

I'm not sure about that.

Really? Medieval expert are you?

No. It's just... I can hear Dusty Springfield.