Doctor Who quotes

Doctor, will it hurt?

No. Well, yes, probably. A bit. Well, quite a lot. I don't know. It might be agony. To be perfectly honest, I'll be interested to find out.

How big is this baby?

Picture the biggest ship you've ever seen. Are you picturing it?

Yeah.

Good, now forget it, because this ship's infinite.

It'll take you hours to find the girl.

Days, plus this whole ship is toxic, she'll be dead by the time I reach her. So, here's the mission. We're going to find her in one hour.

We?

You're my guys for this.

That wasn't the deal!

It is now.

And what makes you think we'll help?

I just activated the TARDIS self-destruct system. [59:56:90 counts down with beeps] One hour until this ship blows. [Bram rushes for the doors, but the Doctor locks them with the flick of a switch] Don't try to leave! The TARDIS is in lockdown. I'll open those doors when Clara's by my side.

You crazy lunatic!

My ship, my rules!

You'll kill us all, and the girl.

She's going to die if you don't help me. Don't get into a spaceship with a mad man. Didn't anyone teach you that?

It isn't just the past leaking out through the time rift, it's the future. Listen, I brought you here to keep you safe, but it happened again. You died again.

What do you mean again?

If you don't have a plan, we're dead!

Yes. We are. So just tell me.

Tell you what?

Well, we're about to die. There's no point now. Just tell me who you are.

[puzzled] You know who I am.

No, I don't. I look at you at you every single day, and I don't understand a thing about you. Why do I keep running into you?

Doctor, you invited me. You said —

Before that. I met you at the Dalek Asylum. There was a girl in a shipwreck, and she died saving my life, and she was you.

She really wasn't.

Victorian London. There was a governess who was really a barmaid, and we fought the Great Intelligence together. She died, and it was my fault, and she was you!

You're scaring me.

What are you, eh? A trick? A trap?

I don't know what you're talking about! [She stumbles backwards, and the Doctor clasps her to keep her from falling over the cliff beside them]

...You really don't, do you?

I think I'm more scared of you right now than anything else on that TARDIS.

You're just Clara, aren't you? [he hugs her]

Okay. I don't know what the hell this is about, but the hug is really nice.

What are you going to do?

Rewrite today, I hope. I've thrown this through the time rift before. I need to make sure this time. Gonna take it in there myself. There might be a certain amount of yelling.

Is it going to hurt?

Things that end your life often do that.

Wait! All those things you said. How we've met before, how I died.

Clara, don't worry. You'll forget. Time mends us. It can mend anything.

I don't wanna forget. Not all of it. The library. I saw it. You were mentioned in a book.

I'm mentioned in a lot of books.

You call yourself "Doctor". Why do you do that? You have a name. I've seen it in one corner of that tiny - [He silences her]

If I rewrite today, you won't remember. You won't go looking... for my name.

You'll still have secrets?

It's better that way.

[Emerging from the TARDIS] Okay! So, not London, 1893 – Yorkshire, 1893. Near enough.

You’re making a habit of this. Getting us lost.

Sorry. It’s much better than it used to be. I once spent a hell of a long time trying to get a gobby Australian to Heathrow airport.

What for?

Search me. Anyway— [There is a scream in the distance. They look at each other] Brave heart, Clara.

[having just fought off a group of attacking pilgrims] What now, Madame? We could lay mimetic cluster mines!

Strax-

Or dig trenches and fill them with acid!

Strax! You're overexcited. Have you been eating Miss Jenny's sherbet fancies again?

...No...?

Go outside and wait until I call for you.

But Madame-!

Go!

[stomping off sulkily] I'm going to go and play with my grenades...

Right, right, London. We were headed for London, weren't we?

Was there any particular reason?

No! No, just thought you might...like it.

Yeah... Maybe had enough of Victorian values for a bit. [steps into the TARDIS]

You're the boss.

[pokes her head out, bemused] Am I?

[realising what he's just said] No! No! Get in! [Clara does so, smirking]

Hey, Clara! There you are. Now, a quick rundown. What's our weapons strength?

One big gun, five of those hand pulsar units, and a shiny black bomb that implodes the planet.

Yeah, yeah. That one. Now, tell me, does it happen, possibly, to have a sort-of remote triggery thing? [she shows it to him] Brilliant. Pass it here.

No.

Why not?

In case you're not you right now. Or even if you are – just in case.

Oh, don't worry. The Cyber-Planner's hibernating between moves right now. Shh.

Prove you're you. Tell me something only the Doctor knows.

Clara... I suppose... I'm the only one who knows how I... feel about you right now. How funny you are... so funny... and pretty. [she smiles] And the truth is I'm starting to like you in a way that is more than just... [he leans in to kiss her. She slaps him].

Ow! Ow, ow! Yes! It's me! That really hurt! How did you know that was him?

Because even if that was true, which it is... obviously not, I know you well enough to know that you would rather die than say it. Finish your stupid game-- [he suddenly grabs her arm] Doctor, let go!

[struggling] I can't... he's got control of the left arm...!

[scared] Doctor?

He got what he wanted. He destroyed the trigger. My move...

What do you mean, he got what he wanted?

[taking control again] He means... good news, boys and girls! THEEEEEEEEY'RE HEEEEEEEERE!

Ah, hello. Can someone untie me, please?

Do you think I'm pretty?

No. You're too short and bossy, and your nose is all funny.

Good enough.

It's a hell of a monument.

It's the TARDIS.

I can see that.

No. When a TARDIS is dying, sometimes the dimension dams start breaking down. They used to call it a size leak. All the bigger-on-the-inside starts leaking to the outside. It grows. When I say that's the TARDIS, I don't mean it looks like the TARDIS, I mean it actually is the TARDIS, my TARDIS from the future. What else would they bury me in?

The Doctor's life is a open wound. And an open wound can be entered.

No, it would destroy you--

Not at all. It will kill me. It will destroy you. I can rewrite your every living moment. I can turn every one of you victories into defeats. Poison every friendship. Deliver pain to your every breath.

It will burn you up! Once you go through, you can't come back. You will be scattered along my timeline like confetti!

It matters not, Doctor. You thwarted me at every turn. Now you will give me peace, as I take my revenge on every second of your life. Goodbye. Goodbye, Doctor. [enters the time stream]

[narrating] Sometimes it's like I've lived a thousand lives in a thousand places. I'm born, I live, I die. And always, there's the Doctor. Always I'm running to save the Doctor. Again and again and again. And he hardly ever hears me. But I've always been there.

Doctor?

Yes? What is it? What do you want?

[narrating] Right from the very beginning.

Sorry, but you're about to make a very big mistake. Don't steal that one, steal this one. The navigation system's knackered, but you'll have much more fun.

[narrating] Right from the day he started running.

Who's that?

Never mind. Let's go back.

But who is he?

He's me. There's only me here. That's the point. Now let's get back.

But I never saw that one. I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you! You're the eleventh Doctor!

I said he was me. I never said he was the Doctor.

I don't understand.

My name, my real name - that is not the point. The name I chose is the Doctor. The name you choose, is like... it's like a promise you make. He's the one who broke the promise.

Clara? Clara! Clara!

He is my secret.

What I did, I did without choice.

I know.

In the name of peace and sanity.

But not in the name of the Doctor!

[Trailer narration] I've been running all my lives... through time and space. Every second of every minute of every day for over nine hundred years. I fought for peace in a universe at war. Now the time has come to face the choices I made in the name of the Doctor. Our future depends on one single moment of one impossible day. The day I've been running from all my life. The day of the Doctor.