Doctor Who Quotes - Page 3

• I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest in the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I'm such a fan of the show. The read-through was very difficult for me; I wanted to keep stuffing my fingers into my ears and scream 'No spoilers!' Every day on set I’ve had to silence my internal fan-boy squeals!

  Nick Frost

  Boys, Doctors, Silence

  "Doctor Who Christmas special gets a Frosty feel" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.

  Arabella Weir

  Doctors, Normal, Magazines

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• Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

  Simon Pegg

  Doctors, Childhood, Bigs

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• Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid. Everybody's like "How can you remain with a level head?". And I'm like "Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I'm making movies. It's stupid."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Running, Stupid

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

  Keeley Hawes

  Fun, Team, Character

  "Why Keeley Hawes is the perfect choice for a Doctor Who villain" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2014.

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• I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Birthday, Believe, Moon

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• Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad.

  Whitley Strieber

  Struggle, Night, Essence

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• The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Simple, Doctors

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.133, Coventry House Publishing

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• I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'

  Arabella Weir

  Book, Names, Voice

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• We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Character, Thinking

  "Transcript: NPR Democratic Candidates' Debate". www.npr.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Doctors, People

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

  Gerry Spence

  Book, School, Doctors

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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• Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

  Steven Moffat

  Coincidence, Busy, Cases

  "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Are doctors who make mistakes villains? No, because then we all are.

  Atul Gawande

  Mistake, Doctors, Villain

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.106, Profile Books

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• Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.

  Steven Moffat

  Thinking, Doctors, Important

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• The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

  Matt Smith

  Doctors, Storytelling, Universal

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• The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doctors, People, World

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 17, 1969.

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• I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Doctors, Would Be

  "London MCM Expo October 2012: Interview with Matt Smith". Interview, www.mcmbuzz.com. October 27, 2012.

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• 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doctors, Greek, Firsts

  "Neil Gaiman Talks DOCTOR WHO Episode “Nightmare in Silver,” Evolving the Cybermen, Creating the Cybermites, His View on the TARDIS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2013.

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• We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

  Matt Groening

  Stars, War, Doctors

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• Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Running, Recovery, Kids

  "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• ...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Doctors, Smoking, Looks

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.28, Del Rey

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• I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

  Steve Berry

  Sorry, Memories, Night

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• What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

  Mehmet Oz

  Eye, Doctors, Years

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