doctor who quotes -4 days

The Tenth Doctor: Master?
The Master: I like it when you use my name.
(“Sound of Drums”)

They used to give away Doctor Who cards in . . . was it PG Tips? No? Typhoo! It was Typhoo! Of course it was. It’s good that you know that, cos I’m having a flashback. Anyway, every time I smell tea, it reminds me of Doctor Who!
--John Simm, Doctor Who Magazine #384

“Now then, you’ve heard of Tolstoy?”
“No, what’s that?”
“He, Jamie, he was a great Russian writer. Anyway, when he was a soldier in the Caucasus—“
“The what?”
“The Caucasus, Jamie. Anyway, he was a young officer there, and one night he abandoned his post so that he could go and play chess with another soldier. He got caught and was arrested.”
“Serves him right.”
(Justin Richards, Dreams of Empire)

“I don’t believe it,” laughs John [Simm], as the take is abandoned. “We’re in the middle of nowhere, and the Benny Hill theme is running in the background!”
“I’m surprised,” adds David [Tennant], “they have ice cream at this time of year.”
“Well, it is Wales.”
--Doctor Who Magazine #385

Matthew Waterson (Adric): Katy Manning went off with a man …
Janet Fielding (Tegan): Well, she would.
--on Tegan’s leaving the show, DVD commentary to “The Visitation”

A selection of definitions from Chris Howarth and Steven Lyons’ The Completely Unofficial Doctor Who Encyclopedia:
FANS, WHIRLING: Let’s be fair, it takes a lot of guts to repeat a science-fiction cliché after it’s been so famously parodied. Post-Galaxy Quest, it’s impossible not to ask why that reset switch was on the other side of the spinning death devices in “The End of the World.”

“FATHER’S DAY”: Right, audience, listen up. This is deeply moving stuff, OK? You will be sad; you will go on an emotional rollercoaster ride; you will cry real tears at the poignant ending—and that’s an order! . . .
Ultimately it’s all rendered much less sad anyway by Pete’s return, albeit as a parallel universe version.

OLYMPIC TORCH: . . . Was there a solitary viewer over the age of seven who wasn’t mortified by the supreme cheesiness of the Doctor lighting up the loved-up Olympic flame with a torch of hope and peace, etc., to the accompaniment of that mawkish voiceover?
“POINTLESSLY NORTHERN”: The People’s verdict on the new series. You know, the one set mostly on a council estate in London.

If you met the Doctor, you'd want to give him a hug. Possibly a kiss with tongue. But if you read his résumé? Madman. Warrior. Killer of peoples, of worlds, of heroes, and soldiers. A living genocide. Nine is about the choice: whom would you be? Then, what must you do?
--Jacob Clifton, TelevisionWithoutPity.com reviewer, review for “The Doctor Dances”

[of the Doctor] One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
--Reinette (“The Girl in the Fireplace”)

I’m not under mind control yet but I’m practicing.
--Janet Fielding, on her acting in “The Visitation”

But then things take a strange turn as the Doctor collapses into a rack of clothes screaming about crushing infinity and hopelessness. “Happens to me all the time in Primark,” says Clay.
--The Time Team reviews “The Twin Dilemma”

Martha: [to Jack] You’ve been carrying around his severed hand in a tank?!
Chantho: Chan is this a tradition among your people tho?
(Russell T Davies, “Utopia”)

Jack [Harkness] likes to dance, and also make out with everybody all the time.
--Jacob Clifton, review for “The Empty Child”

I think she’s [Rose] quite in love with him [the Ninth Doctor].
--Billie Piper, DVD commentary

[The Doctor] is hopelessly in love with her.
--Steven Moffat, DVD commentary

. . . Nicholas Courtney [the Brigadier] still hasn’t recovered from walking into a convention in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last year to be greeted by, not just one, but four women, all dressed as the Brigadier, moustache and all!
--Doctor Who Special: 20th Anniversary

The Doctor isn't stupid, he uses his wits, isn't needlessly violent, and doesn't take himself too seriously. Then the show reflects the character, by being eccentric, urbane, frightening and witty.
--Nev Fountain (Dead Ringers writer)

If you dig deep enough, you’ll find the Doctor all around.
–Clive (Russell T Davies, “Rose”)

I’ve often wondered what it must have been like for an attractive young woman struggling to be taken seriously in such a patrician environment as the BBC in the early 1960s. How her peers must have underestimated her. And how she probably had to be twice as good as any male colleagues just to get by. When you consider Verity Lambert’s formidable track record . . . fans of quality television, not just Doctor Who, owe her a lot.
--Chris Kilby, letter to DWM #391, after Verity Lambert’s death in November 2007

Reality did not come into our relationship.
--Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), of Tom Baker

A few weeks later, and early one morning I find myself in a Birmingham hotel that’s hosting a Doctor Who convention. Just as I’m getting dressed the fire alarm goes off, and I have to run, in my bare feet, down nine flights of stairs alongside Eric Roberts and Carole Ann Ford, struggling all the way not to shout ‘But Grandfather’s still in there!’ to her. --Gareth Roberts

Joan: Where did you learn to draw?
John Smith: Gallifrey.
Joan: Is that in Ireland?
(Paul Cornell, “Human Nature”)

What I loved about “42”: “Burn With Me!” Oh, David, I would . . .
--Emily Bridewell, letter to Doctor Who Magazine #384

I’m very keen on this “everybody leaves” philosophy that the Doctor has developed to protect himself from getting his hearts broken. –Big Finish writer Nick Briggs