Doctor: [in a Scottish accent.] Oh, I'm - I'm dazed and confused. I've been chasing this... This wee naked child over hill and over dale. In't that right, ya... Timorous beastie?
Rose: [in a bad Scottish accent.] Ooch, aye! I've been oot and aboot.
Doctor: No, don't do that.
Rose: Hoots mon!
Doctor: No, really don't. Really.
Quotes from David Tennant movies and TV shows - page 3 of 3
The Face of Boe: I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but you have taught me to look at it anew.
Doctor: There are legends you know, saying that you're millions of years old.
The Face of Boe: There are? That would be impossible.
Doctor: Wouldn't it just? I got the impression... There was something you wanted to tell me...
The Face of Boe: A great secret.
Doctor: So the legend says.
The Face of Boe: It can wait.
Doctor: Oh, does it have to?
The Face of Boe: We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time... For the last time... And the truth shall be told. Until that day...
[He teleports himself away.]
Doctor: That is enigmatic. That...that is...that is textbook enigmatic.
The Christmas Invasion - S2-E2
Doctor: See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I - I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? Right old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed? Left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor? A liar? A nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob.
The Parting of the Ways (2) - S1-E13
Doctor: Rose...Before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I.
Rose: What's the emergency?
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: The universally recognized colour for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All those red alerts, all that dancing.
The Doctor: I can't believe I'm here to see this! This is fantastic!
Rose: Did you know this was going to happen?
The Doctor: Nope!
Rose: Do you recognize the ship?
The Doctor: Nope!
Rose: Do you know why it crashed?
The Doctor: Nope!
Rose: Oh, I'm so glad I've got you.
The Sontaran Stratagem (1) - S4-E4
Doctor: Name?
Skarl: General Skarl of the tenth Sontaran battle fleet. Skarl the undefeated!
Doctor: Oh that's no good, what if you get defeated? Skarl the not-quite-so-undefeated-any-more-but-never-mind?
The Doctor: Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun. God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind! It's just that...just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this, at all, but it's the best I could do. So I'm going to do it. And I will stand here, doing it, till it kills me. You're going to die, too! Some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand...is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind? (00:33:55)
Mr. Copper: To repeat, I am Mr. Copper, the ship's historian, and I shall be taking you to old London Town in the country of UK, ruled over by Good King Wenceslas. Now, human beings worship the great god Santa, a creature with fearsome claws, and his wife Mary. And every Christmas Eve, the people of the UK go to war with the country of Turkey. They then eat the Turkey people for Christmas dinner, like savages.
The Doctor: Excuse me, sorry, sorry. But, um, where did you get all this from?
Mr. Copper: Well, I have a first class degree in Earthonomics.
The Return of Doctor Mysterio - S10-E1
The Doctor: [Looking at the Superman comic] Take a look at that picture.
Young Grant: OK.
The Doctor: Now, this one. Take a good, long look. Takes a moment to see it.
Young Grant: See what?
The Doctor: Superman and Clark Kent are one and the same person.
Young Grant: Are you serious?
The Doctor: Yeah. Look, I drew specs on Superman.
Young Grant: Everyone knows they're the same person.
The Doctor: Uh. Well, Lois Lane doesn't. And she's a reporter.
Soldiers: Our orders are to take you with us.
The Doctor: And whose orders are those, then?
Soldiers: Colonel Stark, sir.
The Doctor: Colonel Stark?.. And who's that, then?
The Doctor: Of course there's a way out! There always is! Apart from in Star Wars, of course.
Cassie Rice: Hey, are you British or something?
The Doctor: Something, that's me! Definitely.
Lord Azlok: You are not of this world. I hear two hearts beating.
The Doctor: Then note their rhythm. I'm not scared of you.
Arthur Eddington: If the cloud breaks quarter past two tomorrow, we look up into the heavens, take photographs of the eclipse, we will be scientists at our work. We'll be looking at the poetry of existence. And if Einstein's right, the Universe will never look the same again.
Peter Vincent: I'm a great date. Get me drunk, and I'll try anything.
Jess: Then the policemen comes.
Abi: That was just a misunderstanding, sweetheart.
Doug: Sometimes when grown-ups discuss things very loudly, people will get the wrong ideas.
Mickey McLeod: He let me play with his taser.
Doug: Well, he didn't let ya.
Mickey McLeod: He didn't say I couldn't.
Jess: Does electricity feel nice, daddy?
Doug: No, not nice.
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