Doctor Who quotes

You don't have to stay forever.

We'll see.

D'you miss it? Out there?

Funny thing is, I fought all those battles for all those years. And now I know what for. This! I've never been so happy in my life...

Okay. Name: "The Doctor". Occupation: "Not a doctor". Current status: "Just passing by". Employer: "Myself". Address: "That blue box over there". Now, if you don't mind, I just got snowmanned, and I would like to go home.

Um... Uh, Doctor what would that be?

Just the Doctor!

No, but who are you? Why are you an expert in time-traveling goblins and--

Oh! Pssh... They are not time-travelers, excuse me! Time travelers are great. Like, the best -- like, wow. This lot's just bimble.

I am learning the vocabulary of rope!

Busy man, sweetheart! You and your box of tricks... You look like you've lost a pound and found a sixpence. What's wrong?

Just wondering... Maybe I'm the bad luck.

Never seen a TARDIS before?

Who are you?

I'm the Doctor, you don't have to stand over there, come and have a look, it's called the TARDIS.

Ooh! nice, but hold on, I can't call you doctor, no I want to know your name.

Yeah that's uh, that's tricky, because I was adopted and the planet that took me in, they were kind of... they were kinda posh, they'd use titles like the Doctor, or the Bishop, or The Rani or the Conquistador, say doctor for a thousand years and it becomes my name

How do you keep going?

For days like this, Ruby Sunday. I don't have a people, I don't have a home... But I don't have a job, either. I don't have a boss, or taxes, or rent, or bills to pay. I don't have a purpose, or a cause, or a mission, but I have... freedom. That's why I keep moving on, to see the next thing, and the next, and the next. And sometimes... It looks even better through your eyes.

Is that a monster?!

No. No, don't be silly -- There's never any such thing as monsters, they're just... Just creatures you haven't met yet.

We're not meant to be like this; did we grow up wrong?

Oh, Poppy... Oh, Popsicle. Look at me, look at me. Nobody grows up wrong. You are what you are, and that is magnificent.

But Mummy and Daddy left us...

That's okay! Mine did, too.

What happened?

Well, I was found.

Hooray!

Little baby me was left alone in the middle of outer space, and guess who took me in?

I don't know!

The Time Lords!

Oooooh...

Can you say it like me?

"Time Lords"!

That's in! Bah-bah-bah-bah-bah! But the point is... that it doesn't matter where I come from, because I am absolutely lovely, aren't I? [Poppy yawns] That wasn't rhetorical, Pops.

Yes, you are!

And you wanna know my secret? There's no one like me in the whole wide universe. No one like me exists, and that's true of everyone. That's not a problem, Captain Pops. It's a superpower.

Who are you?

My notation is... Maestro.

But... what are you?

I am music.

In the past, right now, I live in a place called Totter's Lane. 1963, I parked the TARDIS in a junkyard, and I lived there with my granddaughter, Susan.

Oh...!

Okay?

Your what?

My granddaughter.

Susan?

We could go and have a look, but y'know... timelines, [mimics explosion]

Well, y-- you've got children?

I did have -- I will have. Time Lords get a bit complicated.

Yeah, but you've got a granddaughter! Like, now? Like, today? Back in our time? My time. Gah! Where is she?!

I don't know.

How do you not know?

Time Lords were murdered. Genocide rolled across time and space like a great big cellular explosion; maybe it killed her, too.

Doctor! God...

Can you find it? The lost chord? Are you enough of a genius?

Oh, I would never call myself that, Maestro. But I have lived. And I have loved. And I can only smile like this because I have lost so much. I've experienced everything. Every single thing. And if that's where music comes from... I can find the chord to banish you.

Where are we?

In the middle of a war.

Oh. I was kind of hoping for a beach.

Ah! What do you think this is?

It's not a beach!

Give it time. Everywhere's a beach eventually.

War is business, and business is booming.