Olivia Sutton's Fanfic Journal

---I'm going to drastically EDIT and REDUCE this post (as of today, 29 June 2012)  I was in a real bad mood at the time, and I think a lot of this was too personal and too whiny (particularly at the end of the post).  Since it's been bugging me I thought I'd fix it.  I don't have a great excuse other than, well, the bad mood, and being rather stream of consciousness in my writing at the time.  I really need to learn to NOT do that.---

OK, I recently (like last week) re-watched four Robert Downey Jr films:  Sherlock Holmes, Ironman, Ironman II, and  Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows.  The Holmes films I'd seen in the movie theater.  The Ironman films, I'd watched for the first time just after Memorial Day, because I received them as a gift from a friend over Memorial Day weekend.  I always spend Memorial Day Weekend at Mediawest Con in Lansing, and usually spend a lot of time with this particular friend.  I also saw The Avengers again that weekend.  Anyway, I re-watched the films to review them for my blog (see separate posts).  I then, ended-up writing a very short fic, in long-hand, originally with the rather boring temp-title of "Ironman II Missing Scene", which was never what I was going to post in under unless I got really stuck.  When I typed the story, I remembered the below quote which I had found on the actor's bio page on imdb.  I'd had to check the page again to get Downey Jr's age for the story (and still managed to get it wrong -- he would have been 43 when the first film came out in 2008, when the second one came out two years later - he would have been 45).  And it became the title to the story.  Funny that.

"It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth, and I like the taste of  metal.",  Robert  Downey  Jr, on his addiction to drugs.

Anyway, I really like the above quote.  And not for any obvious reasons, I think.  To me it's a quote about playing with fire, or flirting with danger -- not a quote about death or self-destruction.  There is a certain appeal to playing with fire, that impossible to describe love affair with risk and danger that some people seem to possess.  Which means, the quote isn't really about drugs either.  There does seem to be a personality type that seems attracted to the flame -- whether said personalities express that desire as adrenalin junkies (from extreme sports fanatics, to storm chasers, and everything in between), or through extreme risk-taking as an entrepreneur or stock trader, or through addictive behaviors.  But why is it that some risk-taking is seen as bad and other risk-taking is seen as acceptable and even encouraged?

And, I can certainly understand the bit about liking the taste of metal -- or liking the rush, to the point of taking the risk.  One just has to be very very careful.  To be PERFECTLY clear -- I've never used drugs and have no desire to.  My use of alcohol is limited at best (a beer or glass of wine or cocktail with a nice meal when I go out -- and in my household we have beer or wine with dinner at least three days a week.  That's statistically less than moderate -- and I don't get why so many people seem to condemn any alcohol use when it's completely legal, and not just safe but proven to be good for you in the case of red wine or anti-oxident rich beers).  I don't smoke, gamble or fool around -- at all.

I have to admit, though, I understand that need to flirt with danger or to like the rush of doing something you shouldn't.  And yeah, as I said on the first 'round of this post, because I have manic depression, I actually like being hypo-manic, or slightly manic -- and all the energy and creativity that gives you.  The trick is to not get completely manio.  (So yes, I do drink a lot of coffee and caffeinated beverages, tho' I literally cannot handle Red Bull as it turns out.  I also have a tendency to just not sleep sometimes.  I've had periodic bouts of insomnia since I was a kid.)  And trust me -- being just a tad manic certainly beats being depressed.

--Olivia

I hope that's better and not so whiny.

Various Doctor Who Quotes

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"Absence makes the nose grow longer." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy) "Time and the Rani",  BBC,  1987

"I'm suffering from post-regeneration amnesia-- as far as I can remember." --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"Yes, well, where there's a will-- There's a Tom, a Dick and a Harriet." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy) "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"Out of the frying pan, into the mire." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"A fool and his formula are soon parted." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"Every dogma has it's day." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"No. Two wrongs don't make a left turn-- Right." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"As you snore, so shall you sleep." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"Where there's a will…" Friendly alien of the week (Lucretian)
"There's a beneficiary." The Doctor, in response, (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"A miss is as good as a smile." The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"Time and tide melt the snowman." The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"I'll explain later… It's all relative." The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)-- to Albert Einstein, "Time and the Rani", BBC, 1987

"And I was so looking forward to meeting a dragon." The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Dragonfire", BBC 1987

"Why is everyone around here so pre-occupied with meta-physics?"  The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Dragonfire", BBC 1987

"Yes, that's right, you're going.  You've been gone for ages.  You're already gone.  You're still here.  Just arrived.  Haven't even met you yet.  It all depends on who you are and how you look at it.  Strange business, time." The Doctor
"Goodbye, Doctor." --Mel
"Think about me, when you're living your life, one day after another, all in a neat pattern.  Think about the homeless traveler in his old police box, his days like crazy davy."  The Doctor, saying his goodbyes to Mel in "Dragonfire", BBC 1987

"Ace, Give me some of that Nitro 9 you're not carrying." --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC 1988

"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies." --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"You're species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself."  The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"Frightening, isn't it?  To find that there are others better versed at death than human beings." The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"Weapons.  Always useless in the end."  The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"We're reliant on the Doctor, because only the Doctor knows what is going on." --Rachel (Pamela Salem), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"Only a fool argues with his Doctor."  Group Captain Gilmore (Simon Williams), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"It's called that [the Hand of Omega] because Time Lords have an infinite capacity for pretension." --The Doctor
"I've noticed that."  --Ace
"The Hand of Omega is a mythical name for Omega's remote stellar manipulator, a device used to customise stars with…and didn't we have trouble with the prototype." --The Doctor
"We?" --Ace (Sophie Aldred)
"They." --The Doctor," (Sylvester McCoy), Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"So what are we doing?" --Ace
"Dalek hunting." --The Doctor, Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"Renegade Daleks are blobs.  Imperial Daleks are bionic blobs with bits added.  You can tell the Daleks are into racial purity.  So one lot of Daleks recognised [ck] that the other lot of blobs are too different.  Well, they're mutants.  Not pure in their blobiness." --Ace
"Result?"  --The Doctor
"They hate each other's chromosomes.  War to the death." --Ace, "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"Doctor, how do you do that?" --Allison, Rachel's assistant.
"Do what?" --The Doctor
"How do you just re-wire a piece of alien machinery?" --Alison
"It's easy, when you have 900 years of experience."  --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"This is the Doctor.  President-elect of the high council of Time Lords, Keeper of the Legacy of Rassilon, Defender of the Laws of Time, Protector of Gallifrey.  I call upon you to surrender the Hand of Omega and return to your customary time and place." --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"…the Daleks shall become Lords of Time.  We shall become all…" --Davros
[breaking in, mockingly] "powerful, crush the lesser races, conquer the galaxy, unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding!  Etc.! Etc.!" --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"Doctor, we did good, didn't we?' --Ace
"Perhaps, Time will tell, it always does." --The Doctor (closing dialogue of "Remembrance of the Daleks", BBC, 1988

"Seventh manhole on the right." --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "The Happiness Patrol", *Doctor Who*, BBC 1988

"He'll kill you." --Guard 1
"Of course he will.  That's what guns are for.  Pull a trigger, end a life.  Simple isn't it?'  --
--The Doctor
"Yes."  --Guard 2
"Makes sense, doesn't it?" --the Doctor
"Yes."  --Guard 2
"Life killing life." --the Doctor
"Who are you?" --Guard 1
"Shut up!  Why don't you do it, then?  Look me in the eye. Pull the trigger.  End my life." --the Doctor
"No." --Guard 1
"Why not?" --the Doctor
"I can't." --Guard 1
"Why not?" --the Doctor
"I don't know." --Guard 1
Grabs end of gun and takes it.  "No, you don't, do you?  Throw away your gun." --the Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "The Happiness Patrol", BBC, 1988

"You mean, the world's going to end and you've forgotten about it?" --Ace
"I've been busy." --the Doctor
"How long have you known?"  --Ace (Sophie Aldred)
"Well, in strictly linear terms, as the chronometer flies, I've known since November the 23rd, 1638." --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Silver Nemesis", *Doctor Who*, 1988

"This may qualify as the worst miscalculation since life crawled out of the seas on this sad planet." The Doctor, on sending Nemesis into a decaying orbit, "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"Isn't that old-fashioned?" --Ace
"Well, I'm an old-fashioned guy." --the Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"Come on, the bear will not pursue us-- such things happen only in the theatre."  Lady Peinforte (Fiona Walker), "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"I don't suppose you completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro-9, did you? Hum?" --The Doctor
"What if I had?"  --Ace
"Naturally, you wouldn't do anything as insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?"  --The Doctor
"Of course not, I'm a good girl, I do what I'm told."
"Excellent!  Blow up that vehicle!"  --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988, (Ace grins and creeps off)

"Hello, I'm the Doctor, I believe you want to kill me."  --The Doctor to the Cyber-guards, "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"If I give you the bow…" the Doctor
"Your power becomes mine, but your secrets remain your own."  --Lady Peinforte
"It's all over, Ace, my battle, all my battles…" --the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"Professor!  That's me!"--Ace
"What?  'Course it is.  What a good likeness." --the Doctor, who then smiles at her.
"How come I'm hanging up here." --Ace
"Well, it hasn't happened yet." --the Doctor
"But it's 200 years ago." --Ace
"I know. But you haven't done it yet; that's why you can't remember it." --The Dr
"That doesn't make sense." --Ace
"Well, it did to Louie Armstrong.  But then, he really understood time."  --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"You seem remarkably well-informed- for someone who knows nothing."  Head Nazi
"I simply notice what is obvious- you apparently don't." --the Doctor, "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"They saved my life!" --Ace
"Don't thank them yet-- you may live to regret it." --the Doctor
"What are they?" --Ace
"Cybermen!" --The Doctor, "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"Validium was created as the ultimate defense for Gallifrey--back in early times."  --the Doctor
"Created by Omega?" --Ace
"Yes." --the Doctor
"And?" --Ace
"Rassilon." --the Doctor
"And?" --Ace
"And none of it should have left Gallifrey.  But, as always with these things, some of it did." --the Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"Doctor?" --Ace
"Ace?" (hesitantly) --the Doctor
"Look, Let's be honest about it.  I've never really buggered out of anything before, have I?" --Ace
"Oh, Ace, I'm sorry.  Forgive me.  Why don't you go back to the TARDIS?  You'll be safe there, whatever happens." --the Doctor
"No chance, Doctor, no chance." --Ace, "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"And I am to destroy the entire Cyber fleet?" --Nemesis
"Forever."  --the Doctor
"And then?"  --Nemesis
"Reform." --the Doctor
"You will need me in the future, though." --Nemesis
"I hope not." --the Doctor
"And after this will I have my freedom?" --Nemesis
"Not yet." --the Doctor
"When?" --Nemesis
"I told you when. [pause as he takes the bow] "Things are still imperfect."  --the Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Silver Nemesis", BBC, 1988

"It has a graveyard stench." --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Battlefield" [on how he can tell it's a nuclear missile convey], BBC, 1989

"Of all the varied wonders of the universe, there's nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind." --the Doctor, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"Whenever this Doctor shows up…all hell breaks loose."  --UNIT soldier, "Battlefield", BBC 1989

"The point of archeology is to carefully recover the past, not distinigrate it." --the Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"Archeology is a precise and delicate skill.  History has to be eased out of the Earth, one painstaking layer at a time." Amateur archeologist Peter Whimsley, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"It says-- dig hole here."  --the Doctor
"What does it say that it?" --Whimsley
"My handwriting." --the Doctor, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"Ace, one of these days we're going to have a nice, long talk about acceptable safety standards."  --The Doctor, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"What is Clarke's Law?" --the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)
"Well, any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic." --Ace (Sophie Aldred)
"Well, the reverse is true." --the Doctor
"Any advanced form of magic is indistinguishable from technology?" --Ace, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"Stop! I command it! There will be no battle here!" --the Doctor, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"We know you of old, Merlin, you will not kill."  -Modred
"I wouldn't count on it!" --the Doctor
"Come on then, look me in the eye, end my life." --Modred
"Try me!" --the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney)
"Battlefield", BBC, 1989 (see also, "The Happiness Patrol")

"Exotic alien swords are easy to come by, Aces are rare." --the Doctor, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"You just shoot the bullets into it?"--the Brigadier
"Simple, isn't it?  Like most killings." --The Doctor, "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"Sorry, Doctor, I think I'm rather more expendable than you are." --the Brigadier, (Nicholas Courtney), "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"Get off my world!" --The Brigadier, (Nicholas Courtney), "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"I just do the best I can." --The Brigadier, (Nicholas Courtney), "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"If this missile explodes-- millions will die, you will die."  --the Doctor
"I shall die with honor." --Morgaine
"All over the world, fools are poised, ready to let death fly. Machines of death, Morgaine, are screaming from above, a light brighter than the Sun, not a war between armies, nor a war between nations but just death, death gone mad.  A child looks up into the sky, his eyes turn to cinders.  No more tears, only ashes.  Is this Honour? Is this war?  Are these the weapons you would use?  Tell me!" --the Doctor
"No." Morgaine (Jean Marsh)
"Then put a stop to it, Morgaine, end the madness." --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"Time and Time Lords wait for no man." --the Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Battlefield", BBC, 1989

"It travels at the speed of thought." --the Doctor (re Light), "GhostLight", BBC, 1989

"Don't you have things you hate?" --Ace
"I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations-- terrible places of lost luggage and lost souls." --The Doctor
"I told you I never wanted to come back here again." --Ace
"And there's unrequited love…and tyranny and cruelty…"  The Doctor
"Too right." --Ace (Sophie Aldred)
"We all have a universe of our own terrors to face." --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)
"I face mine on my own terms." --Ace, "GhostLight" BBC 1989

"Sir, I think Mr. Matthews is confused." --Gwendolyne
"Never mind, I'll have him completely bewildered by the time I'm finished." --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "GhostLight" BBC 1989

"Let me guess, my theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie!" --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "GhostLight" BBC 1989

"Why don't you just read Darwin instead of condemning him?" The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "GhostLight" (missing scene) BBC 1989

"Do you have any family of your own?" --Kathryn, Ace's Grandmother
"I don't know." --The Doctor, (Sylvester McCoy), "Curse of Fenric", BBC, 1989

"What's wrong, I'll do anything." --Ace to Kathryn, "Curse of Fenric", BBC, 1989

"Professor, I'm not a little girl." --Ace, "Curse of Fenric", BBC, 1989

"We came to steal Ultima machine.  Chess set?  No problem." Capt. Sorin, "Curse of Fenric", BBC, 1989

"You don't have the emblem this time." Haemeovore Demon Girl
"But I still have my faith." Capt. Sorin, BBC, 1989

"So what's so terrible about Perivale?" --the Doctor
"Nothing ever happens here." --Ace, "Survival", BBC, 1989

"So he's taken you away--to another planet, I'll find you." --The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Survival", BBC, 1989

"If we fight like animals, we die like animals." --The Doctor(Sylvester McCoy), "Survival", BBC, 1989

"I felt like I could run forever, smell the wind and feel the grass beneath my feet, and just run forever."  --Ace (Sophie Aldred), "Survival", BBC, 1989

"Home?" --the Doctor
"The TARDIS." --Ace, "Survival", BBC, 1989

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream.  People made of smoke and cities made of song.  Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea is getting cold.  Come on, Ace, we've got work to do." --the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), "Survival" (as the Doctor and Ace walk off into the woods together), BBC, 1989

Various Doctor Who Quotes

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The Paul McGann DW TV movie is also copyright Fox Broadcasting
Disclaimer: These quotes are presented for the amusement of fans and to promote thought in visitors to this website. We believe this constitutes fair use of brief snippets of dialogue. Enjoy!

"You may be a doctor, but I'm the Doctor, the definite article, I might say."  --The Doctor (Tom Baker) to Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter), "Robot", BBC 1974

"A new body's like a new house, takes a little bit of time to settle in." --The Doctor (Tom Baker), "Robot", BBC 1974

"Believe me, Doctor, the place is impregnable." -- The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney)
"I never cared too much for the word, 'impregnable', sounds a bit too much like 'unsinkable'." --the Doctor (Tom Baker)
"What's wrong with 'unsinkable'?" -- Dr. Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter)
"Nothing, as the iceberg said to the Titanic." --the Doctor (Tom Baker)
"What?" --Harry
"Glug, glug, glug, glug." (said while sinking into his seat in the car) --The Doctor (Tom Baker), "Robot", BBC 1974

"Well, Doctor, What are we dealing with?  Invasion from out space, again?" --The Brigadier
"Why should some alien life form invade Earth just to steal a new weapon?  If they were that advanced they'd have weapons of their own." --The Doctor  (Tom Baker), "Robot", BBC 1974

"The US cavalry never got treated like this!" --Sgt. Benton (after Sarah complains about UNIT)

"Naturally enough, the only country that could be trusted with such as role was Great Britain."  --The Brigadier
"Well, naturally, I mean the rest were all foreigners." --The Doctor  (Tom Baker), "Robot", BBC 1974

"Aren't you forgetting that in science, as in morality, the end never justifies the means?" --The Doctor  (Tom Baker) to Professor Ketterwell, "Robot", BBC 1974

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets!" --Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, "Robot", BBC 1974

"Homo Sapiens! What an inventive, invincible species.  It's only a few millions years since they've crawled out of  the mud and learned to walk.  Puny, defenseless, bipeds.  They've survived flood, famine and plague, they've survived cosmic wars and holocausts, and now here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life, ready to outsit eternity.  They're indomitable!  Indomitable!" --The Doctor (Tom Baker), "The Ark in Space", BBC 1975

"It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species." --The Doctor (Tom Baker), "The Ark in Space", BBC 1975

"We have won!  They talk of Democracy, Freedom, Fairness, these are the creeds of cowards.  The ones who will listen to 1,000 viewpoints and try to satisfy them all.  Achievement comes through absolute power!  And power through strength.  They have lost!" --Davros, evil megalomaniac, "Genesis of the Daleks", BBC 1975

"Well, What are you waiting for?"  --Sarah Jane
"Just touch these two strands together and the Daleks are finished.  Have I done right?" The Doctor
"To destroy the Daleks, you can't doubt it?" --Sarah
"But I do. You see, some things could be better with the Daleks.  Many Future Worlds will become allies just because of their fear of the Daleks."  --The Doctor
"It isn't like that!" --Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen)
"But the final responsibility is mine, and mine alone." --The Doctor
...
"But if I kill, wipe out a whole intelligent life form, then I become like them, I'd be no better than the Daleks." The Doctor (Tom Baker), "Genesis of the Daleks", BBC 1975

"We failed, Haven't we?" --Sarah Jane
"Failed? No, not really.  You see, I know that though the Daleks will create havoc and destruction for millions of years, I know also, out of their evil must come something good."
The Doctor (Tom Baker), "Genesis of the Daleks", BBC 1975

"The Earth isn't my home, Sarah, I'm a Time Lord…" --the Doctor
"I know you're a Time Lord." --Sarah Jane
"You don't understand the implications --I'm not a human being, I walk in Eternity." --the Doctor
"What's the supposed to mean?" --Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen)
"It means I've lived for something like 750 years."  --The Doctor (Tom Baker), "Pyramids of Mars", BBC 1975

"Something is very wrong…something's going on contrary to the laws of the universe, I must find out what."  --the Doctor (Tom Baker), "Pyramids of Mars", BBC, 1975

"Good heavens!  This is unbelievable!  Totally, unbelievable!" --Lawrence Scarman
"You're going to say it transcends all the normal laws of physics." --the Doctor
"I am, yes, it does, it preposterous." --the Doctor
"Isn't it, isn't it?  I often think dimensional transcendentalism is preposterous, but it works. Would you like to take a look around?" the Doctor
"May I?" --Lawrence
"Please." --the Doctor (Tom Baker), "Pyramids of Mars", BBC, 1975

"Now that we are here [in the TARDIS], why don't you tune-up 1980 and we can, well, leave."  --Sarah Jane
"I can't." --the Doctor
"Why can't you?" --the Doctor
"Because if Sutekh isn't stopped he'll destroy the world." --the Doctor
"But he didn't, did he?  I mean, we know the world didn't end in 1980."
"Do we?" --the Doctor
"Yes, of course we do." --Sarah Jane
"All right, if we leave now, let's see  what the world will look like in 1980." --the Doctor

…

"1980, Sarah, if you want to get off."  --the Doctor, "Pyramids of Mars", BBC, 1975

"Every point of time has it's alternative, Sarah, you've looked into alternative time." --the Doctor
"Fascinating, Do you mean the future can be chosen, Doctor?"  --Lawrence
"Not chosen, shaped. The actions of the present fashion the future." --the Doctor
"So a man can change the course of history?" --Lawrence
"To a small extent,  It takes a being of Sutekh's almost limitless power to destroy the future. [pause] Well? (looking at Sarah)" --the Doctor (Tom Baker)
"We've got to go back." --Sarah Jane (Elisabeth Sladen) "Pyramids of Mars", BBC, 1975

"Sometimes you don't seem…" --Sarah Jane
"Human?" --the Doctor

…

"A man has just been murdered." --Sarah Jane
"Four men, Sarah, five if you include Professor Scarman, himself.  And they'll be the first of millions unless Sutekh is stopped." --the Doctor (Tom Baker), "Pyramids of Mars", BBC, 1975

"You're caught in the corridor of Eternity."  --the Doctor, to Sutekh, "Pyramids of Mars", BBC, 1975

"I can feel my hair curling, and that means either its going to rain, or I'm on to something." The Doctor (Tom Baker) "Deadly Assassin", BBC 1976

"That's monstrous! Vaporisation without representation is against the Constitution!" The Doctor (Tom Baker), "Deadly Assassin", BBC, 1976

"No answer to a straight question-- typical politician." --The Doctor, "Deadly Assassin", BBC, 1976

"No, the story is not acceptable, we must adjust the truth." --The Cardinal, "Deadly Assassin", BBC, 1976

"If heroes don't exist-- it is necessary to invent them, good for public morale." --The Cardinal, "Deadly Assassin", BBC, 1976

"I shall have to go alone, of course.  It's funny they always want you to go alone when you're walking into a trap, have you noticed that?" --The Doctor (Tom Baker), "Androids of Tara", BBC, 1978

"You see before you, the complete killing machine.  As beautiful as you and as deadly as the plague!  If only she were real, I'd marry her!" Count Grendal (Peter Jeffrey), "Androids of Tara", BBC, 1978

"I say, what a wonderful butler.  He's so violent."  --the Doctor (Tom Baker), "City of Death", BBC 1979

"Be careful, my dear, I don't think he's as stupid as he seems." Countess Scarlioni (Catherine Schell)
"My dear, no one could be as stupid as he seems." Count Scarlioni (in response) (Julian Glover) "City of  Death", BBC 1979

"I can't let you fool about with time." --The Doctor (Tom Baker)
"What else do you ever do?" --Count Scarlioni (Julian Glover)
"Well, I'm a professional, I know what I'm doing." The Doctor (Tom Baker), "City of  Death", BBC 1979

"It's the end--but the moment has been prepared for." --the Doctor (Tom Baker), "Logopolis", BBC ,1981

Enjoy--

Olivia

Doctor Who is copyright to the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1963 - present
The Paul McGann DW TV movie is also copyright Fox Broadcasting
Disclaimer: These quotes are presented for the amusement of fans and to promote thought in visitors to this website. I believe this constitutes fair use of brief snippets of dialogue. Enjoy!

Various Doctor Who Quotes

"Just let me get this right, a thing that looks like a police box, stuck in a junkyard, can move anywhere in time and space?" Ian (William Russell), "An Unearthly Child", BBC 1963

"I know that free movement in the fourth dimension of space and time is a scientific dream I didn't expect to find solved in a junkyard." Ian (William Russell), "An Unearthly Child", BBC 1963

"You wanted advice you said, I never give it, never.  But I might just say this to you - Always search for truth.  My truth is in the stars and yours is here." The Doctor (William Hartnell), "The Daleks", BBC 1963

"But you can't re-write history, not one line." --The Doctor (William Hartnell), "The Aztecs", BBC, 1964

"Barbara, one last appeal, what you are trying to do is utterly impossible.  I know, believe me, I know!" The Doctor (William Hartnell), "The Aztecs", BBC, 1964

"You know, I want to get away from here." --Ian
"Yes, but… aren't you even a bit curious? It's your city, you know.  Don't you want to know what's happened to it?" The Doctor (William Hartnell)
"No. No. I don't want to know." --Ian, "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", BBC, 1964

"I never felt there was any time or place that I belonged to.  I've never had any real identity." --Susan
"One day you will. There will come a time when you're forced to stop travelling and you'll arrive somewhere!" --David, "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", BBC, 1964

"No, Tyler, no! I never take life, only when my own is immediately threatened." --The Doctor, "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", BBC, 1964

"Now, there are two things you can do.  One - sit there until you get your breath back; and two - Don't call me Doc!  Now, do I make myself clear?" --The Doctor (William Hartnell)
"Yes, yes, whatever you say, Doc...tor." --Steven (Peter Purves), "The Time Meddler", BBC 1965

"Well, what does this do?" --Steven (pointing to TARDIS council)
"That is the dematerising control, and over yonder is the horizontal hold, up there is the scanner, those are the doors, over there is a chair with a panda on it, sheer poetry dear boy, now please stop bothering me!"  The Doctor (William Hartnell), "The Time Meddler", BBC 1965

"Now, if Harold is King and Edward was laid to rest at the beginning of the year -- then it must be 1066!"  The Doctor (William Harnell), "The Time Meddler", BBC 1965

"PROGRESS CHART

1.  Arrival in Northumbria
2.  Position Atomic Cannon
3.  Site Vikings
4.  Light Beacon Fires
5.  Destroy Viking Fleet
6. Norman Landing
7. Battle of Hastings
8. Meet King Harold"    (The Meddling Monk's Plan)

(There's a knock on the door) "Oh, no more visitors, it's getting so you can't call a monastery your own!"  The Meddling Monk, "The Time Meddler", BBC 1965

"You know as well as I do the golden rule about space and time travelling... never, never, interfere with the course of  history!"  The Doctor
"And who says so?  Doctor, it's more fun my way. ... For instance, do you really believe the ancient Britans could have built Stonehedge without the aide of my anti-gravity lift?" --the Meddling Monk, "The Time Meddler", BBC 1965

"If you don't hurry up and get us out of here we'll be fried by that lava!" -- Jaime (Frazer Hines)
"Isn't there any way we can get away?" -- Zoë (Wendy Padbury)
"Well, there is an emergency unit ... oh no, I can't possibly use that!" -- The Doctor
"But this is an emergency!" -- Zoë
"But it moves the TARDIS out of the time/space Dimension! Out of Reality!" -- The Doctor (Troughton)
"Well, fine -- reality's getting too hot, anyway!" -- Jaime, "The Mind Robber", BBC 1968

"You're interested in what's outside the TARDIS now, aren't you?" --The Doctor
"Well, curious, yes."  -- Zoë
"Zoë, Listen to me, If we move outside the TARDIS we step into a dimension about which we know nothing!  We should be at the mercy of the forces outside time & space as we know it!" The Doctor
"But Doctor, I still think we should go outside and see!"  -- Zoë, "The Mind Robber", BBC 1968

"I think we may be in a place where nothing is impossible!" The Doctor (Patrick Troughton), "The Mind Robber", BBC 1968

"Oh -- a strip cartoon of the year 2000!" --The Doctor
"But you've been in the year 2000, haven't you?" ---- Zoë
"Yes -- but I hardly had time to follow the strip cartoons!" The Doctor (Troughton)
"Well, you better start following this one -- He's half-way up that cliff!" Zoë, "The Mind Robber", BBC 1968

Quotes from Max Headroom 20 Minutes into the Future

By episode

Episode 3: Body Bank

"We are the unlucky generation, we are the children who have to play in the poisonous back yard our parents decided not to tell us about." Edison Carter (o.s.- as part of his "I Want to Know" show)

"Losing a vidicam is a hanging offense at 23."
-- Carter

(Note: by my count, he loses four vidicams during the series 13-episode run. One, here in "Body Bank", which he gets back. One in "Security Systems"- he ditches it to avoid the Metrocops. One in "Blipverts". And he leaves one at the Zik Zak restaurant after using the "neurostim" device in "Neurostim".)

"If that’s simple, Bryce, complexity must be awesome." Ben Cheviot (Network 23 chairman)

"Welcome to Big Time television, all day, every day, making tomorrow seem like yesterday. And remember when we said there was no future? Well, this is it."
--Blank Reg

"You want me to choose between a girl’s life and a job? (long pause) You know my answer already. With respect, Mr. Cheviot, the priority is clear." Edison

"With respect, my priority is Max Headroom, and this network." Cheviot

"Asking is just polite demanding." Max Headroom (tho' he claims to be quoting "one of Edison's")

"Don’t be clever, Bryce." –Julia Fromby
"Sorry, I thought that was why I was here." –Bryce

"Sit down, we haven’t had a ratings battle for a couple of minutes.'
--Cheviot, last line of ep.

Episode 4: Security Systems (AKA. “A-7”)

“In today’s world your inalienable rights are: consumer credit, unlimited television, and personal security. In your home, in your place of work—you can count on Security Systems. Security Systems wherever you go, there we are.”
--Security Systems commercial on Network 23

“Security Systems is the largest and most powerful corporation of its kind in the world, it has access to more privileged information than any single government, and in the wrong hands it could be used to destroy businesses and lives.”- Edison

“Credit fraud? My God, that’s worse than murder.” Ben Cheviot

Episode 6: The Blanks (AKA “Simon Peller”)

 
"Smother technology and it rebels."—Max Headroom

“We’re going to go critical if we don’t act soon.”- Board member Julia Fromby
“We’re going to have riots out there, we should distribute emergency video players, immediately.” –Board member Mr. Edwards
--On the computer failures preventing Network 23 and others from broadcasting

“Simon, we all know the votes are computer-enhanced. My question is, whether your opponent isn’t sabotaging your victory.”—Mr. Cheviot
“Of course not, we negotiated election results weeks ago.”—Peller, in response.

“Without regular picture transmissions, thousands are swarming the streets desperately buying black market tapes from video vendors.”—Janie Crane (Network 23 reporter, introduced in “War”)

“Simon Peller’s ordered all the Blanks arrested. He says it’s untidy not having people on the computers-- makes them hard to catch.”—Metrocop, Blank Girl’s apt.

“Edison—an off switch.” Janie (pointing to the TV)
“She’ll get years for that, off switches are illegal.”—Metrocop

“Without televisions, this city would be ungovernable.”—Julia Fromby

“Reg, I believe in the principal, but the method stinks.”—Edison, to Blank Reg, on the program.

Episode 7: Academy

“Head sysop? Does it teach or devour maidens?”— Edison, to himself.

“Grey areas are quite useless to a computer specilist. We don’t deal in guilt, we deal in information. That is why the appropriate party will be with us shortly. You will see.”
--Headmaster, ACS (Head Sysop) to Edison

“What about right and wrong?”—Edison
“Non-empirical concepts.”—Bryce

“I’m used to logic, not opinion.”—Bryce

“Sometimes I think I could use some legs and you could use some conscience.”—Max Headroom (sounding very much like Edison)
“What file is it in?” –Bryce, in reply to Max

“The last resort of the innocent is always publicity.”—Edison

“You remind me of myself.”—Bryce
“Should I take that as a compliment?”—Nicholas (ACS student & hacker)
“No.”—Bryce

Episode 11: Whacketts (w/ guest star Bill Maher)

"There's a nice irony in that, in a crisis, they watch a game show, television before life." -Murray

"He had something to tell me about the extra-ordinary events of this morning's apartment collapse tragedy --where people ignored victims and watched television." --Edison

"Whacketts is a video narcotic!" --Edison

I need to go through all the episodes and finish the quote list, but the show is awesome.  It needs to be on DVD!

--Olivia

Notable Quotables from Various Sources

"Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people."  --Roger Ebert, introduction to The Great Movies, New York: Broadway Books 2002.

"That a woman with intelligence, determination and a certain amount of training can be as stupidly macho as any man." Steele, "Santa Claus is Coming to Steele" Remington Steele, NBC

"An independent and intelligent woman seldom acts according to anybody else's dictates." --Adam, Traders , Global TV--Canada

Steele-- "Get in the back and throw the oil drums in their path!"
Laura-- "Oil drums! There aren't any oil drums!"
Steele-- "There were in From Russia with Love."
"Steele Your Heart Away" (Takes place while Laura and Steele are in an Irish trap--a type of carriage-- and being chased by two bad guys shooting at them from a motor car).

Remington Steele, NBC

"Do you always do things on such a grand scale, Mr. Pierson?" --Laura
"Only when I'm aroused ... with curiosity." -- Ben Pierson (Steele)
"License to Steele", pilot, Remington Steele

"It's good to cherish old things--Beauty is always on the edge of being lost." --Andro (Martin Landau), "The Man Who Was Never Born", The Outer Limits

"There's a greal deal of comfort in the sounds of youth." --Andro (Martin Landau), "The Man Who Was Never Born", The Outer Limits

“Getting killed is just not part of my karma right now, Pete.”
--Professor Whitiker (John Astin), “High Treason”, The Adventures of Brisco County Junior

“Because wars make good heroes, and heroes make good presidents.” The girl, on why Gen. Quarry is trying to start a US-Mexico war, “High Treason”, The Adventures of Brisco County Junior

Quotes are not meant to infringe on any copyrights/trademarks/ or servicemarks.

Notable Quotables from Various Sources (Real People Quotes)

"Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people."  --Roger Ebert, introduction to The Great Movies, New York: Broadway Books 2002.

"I possess three passports... and an artistic license!" --Mike Myers, on Inside the Actor's Studio

"Canada has become one of the world's priniciple resources for humor, How do you explain it?"--James Lipton, to Mike Myers

"It's an odd thing being Canadian, it really is.  It's...kinda... You're not English, you're not French, you're not American, and you're not the country that your parents came from.  Nor are you Native.  It's a very subtle flavour.  It's kinda' like celery.  Do you know what I mean?  If Mexico is salsa, Canada is celery.  I mean, when's the last time you went out for a Canadian food?"--Mike Myers, Inside the Actors Studio

"Lets eat Canadian tonight?" --James Lipton responding back to Mike Myers, Inside the Actors Studio

"But that's not me, that's Will Farrell doing me.  ... I don't have an English accent.  He does.  For some mysterious reason... I'm from Michigan for Christ's sake, you and I talk just alike." --James Lipton to Mike Myers (re: Will Farrell's characterisation of Lipton on Saturday Night Live), Inside the Actors Studio

"[Remember] It's Disney! The mouse doesn't have genitals."  Robin Williams to James Lipton, Inside the Actors Studio (Williams was commenting on the reactions he got from his bosses, when he "went blue" while voicing the Genie for Disney's Aladdin)

"The law is a very conservative profession, so only something as ridiculous as being asked if I'd like to do a television show could have made me leave."  --Bob Mortimer, Radio Times Interview, Feb. 2004

"I just came back from California, that's abroad."  --Vic Reeves, interview, "This Morning" (UK TV)

"Well, I can understand that, the whole TV ratings thing, because if I had my choice of a wedding or watching 'Dr. Who,' I'd watch 'Dr. Who' every time." --  Keith Olbermann, MSNBC reporter, commenting on another reporter's comment that the new Doctor Who series had better ratings than the Charles-Camilla Royal Wedding. (from Outpost: Gallifrey News page)