Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Girl in the Fireplace (2006)

David Tennant: The Doctor

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Quotes 

• The Doctor : [drunk and talking to a robot]  It's you! You're my favourite! You are the best, you know why? Cause you're so thick! You're mister thick thickity thick face from thicktown thickannia. And so is your Dad!

• Mickey Smith : What's a horse doing on a spaceship?

  The Doctor : Mickey, what's Pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!

• The Doctor : Go! and take Arthur!

  Rose Tyler : Arthur?

  The Doctor : Fine name for a horse.

  Rose Tyler : No you can't keep the horse.

  The Doctor : Why not? I let you keep Mickey! Now go!

• Young Reinette : Monsieur, be careful!

  The Doctor : It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares!

  Young Reinette : What do monsters have nightmares about?

  The Doctor : Me!

• The Doctor : [the Doctor is searching through Reinette's memories]  Sorry, you might find old memories reawakening, side effect.

  Reinette Poisson : Oh, such a lonely childhood!

  The Doctor : It'll pass.

  Reinette Poisson : Oh, Doctor, so lonely, so very very alone!

  The Doctor : What do mean, lonely? You've never been alone in your whole life- wait a minute, when did you start calling me Doctor?

  Reinette Poisson : Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now! How can you bear it?

  The Doctor : [breaking the mental connection]  How did you do that?

  Reinette Poisson : A door, once opened, may be stepped through in either direction. Oh, Doctor, my lonely Doctor... dance with me.

  The Doctor : I can't.

  Reinette Poisson : Dance with me.

  The Doctor : This is the night you dance with the king.

  Reinette Poisson : Then first I shall make him jealous.

  The Doctor : I can't.

  Reinette Poisson : Doctor. Doctor who? It's more than just a secret, isn't it.

  The Doctor : What did you see?

  Reinette Poisson : That there comes a time, Timelord, when every lonely little boy must learn how to dance!

• The Doctor : [hears ticking noise and sees broken clock]  Okay that's scary.

  Young Reinette : You're scared of a broken clock?

  The Doctor : Just a bit scared, yeah. Just a tiny bit. 'Cause you see, if this clock's broken, and it's the only one in the room, than what's that?

• The Doctor : Reinette, what age are you?

  Reinette Poisson : So impertinent a question so early in the conversation! How promising.

• The Doctor : Oh, you are beautiful! No really, you are, you're gorgeous! Space-age clockwork, I love it, I've got chills! Listen, I mean this from the heart- and by the way, count those- it would be a crime, it would be an act of vandalism to disassemble you. But that won't stop me.

• Rose Tyler : Who is she?

  The Doctor : Jeanne-Antionette Poisson, known to her friends as Reinette. One of the most accomplished women who ever lived.

  Rose Tyler : Has she got plans on being the queen, then?

  The Doctor : No, he's already got a queen. She's got plans on being his mistress.

  Rose Tyler : Oh, I get it. Camilla!

• Rose Tyler : [about Madame De Pompadour]  The Queen must've loved her.

  The Doctor : Oh, she did. They got on very well.

  Mickey Smith : The King's wife and the King's girlfriend?

  The Doctor : France. It's a different planet.

• King Louis : What the hell is going on?

  Reinette Poisson : Oh. This is my lover, the king of France.

  The Doctor : Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time.

• Mickey Smith : It's a spaceship! Brilliant, I got a spaceship on my first go!

  Rose Tyler : Looks kind of abandoned. Anyone on board?

  The Doctor : Nah, nothing here. Well, nothing dangerous. Well, not that dangerous. Know what, I'll just have a quick scan... in case there's anything dangerous.

• Manservant : Who the hell are you?

  The Doctor : [laughing]  I'm The Doctor. And I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!

• Rose Tyler : [the Doctor enters, singing "I Could Have Danced All Night", seemingly drunk]  Oh, look what the cat dragged in, the oncoming storm.

  The Doctor : Oh, you sound just like your mother.

  Rose Tyler : What have you been doing, where've you been?

  The Doctor : Well, among other things, I *think* I just invented the banana daiquiri a couple of centuries early. Do you know they'd never seen a banana before? Always take a banana to a party, Rose, bananas are good.

  [to the droid] 

  The Doctor : Oh, brilliant, it's you! You're my favorite, you are, you are the best, you know why? Cause you're so thick! You're Mr. Thick Thick Thickety Thick-face from Thick-town, Thickania. And so's your dad!

• The Doctor : [coming back to a different time]  Reinette... well, goodness how you've grown.

  Madame Du Pompadour : And you don't appear to have aged a single day. I think that is tremendously impolite of you.

• The Doctor : Must be a spatio-temporal hyperlink.

  Mickey Smith : What's that?

  The Doctor : No idea, I just made it up. Didn't want to say "Magic Door"

• Rose Tyler : No! You're not keeping the horse!

  The Doctor : Why not? I let you keep Mickey!

• The Doctor : [reading Reinette's mind]  If there's anything you don't want me to see, just imagine a door, and close it.

  [pause] 

  The Doctor : Actually, there's a door there, you may want to just... ooh...

  [Reinette smiles mischievously] 

• Madame Du Pompadour : You seem to be flesh and blood but this is absurd. Reason tells me you cannot be real

  The Doctor : Oh, you don't want to listen to reason.

• The Doctor : What was it you said the flight deck smelled of?

  Rose Tyler : Cooking.

  The Doctor : Human flesh plus heat. Barbecue.

• Rose Tyler : You all right?

  The Doctor : I'm always all right.

• The Doctor : [the Doctor arrives back on the ship to find himself alone]  Rose?... Mickey? Every time - every time! It's rule one: don't wander off! I tell them I do, rule one! There could be anything on this ship!

  [he turns a corner and comes face-to-face with a horse] 

• Mickey Smith : What's a horse doing on a spaceship?

  The Doctor : Mickey, what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!

• Young Reinette : Monsieur, what are you doing in my fireplace?

  The Doctor : Oh, just a routine... fire check.

• The Doctor : Let me tell you, the French know how to throw a party!

  Rose Tyler : Where have you been?

  The Doctor : I think I just invented the banana daquiri a couple centuries early... Always take a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are good.

• Reinette Poisson : This is my lover, the king of France.

  The Doctor : Well I'm the lord of time.

• The Doctor : [quiet and confused]  Poisson?...

  [shocked and excited] 

  The Doctor : No, no, no way, Reinette Poisson? Later Madame D'Etoiles, later still mistress of Louis the XV, uncrowned Queen of French? Actress, artist, musician, dancer, courtesan. Fantastic gardener!

  French Servant : Who the hell are you?

  The Doctor : [triumphant]  I'm the Doctor, and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!

• The Doctor : Rose, take Arthur, follow it. Don't approach it, just go, go, go!

  Rose Tyler : Arthur?

  The Doctor : Good name for a horse.

  Rose Tyler : No, you're not keeping the horse.

  The Doctor : I let you keep Mickey!

• Reinette Poisson : Fireplace Man, you are inside my mind.

  The Doctor : Oh dear, Reinette. You've had some cowboys in here.

• The Doctor : [wandering in singing, glass in hand]  I could have *spread my wings* and done a thou-have you *met* the French? My... *GOD*, they know how to party.

  Rose Tyler : Oh, look what the cat dragged in, the Oncoming Storm.

  The Doctor : Ooh, you sound just like your mother.

  Rose Tyler : What have you been doing all this time? Where've you *been*?

  The Doctor : Well, among other things, I *think* I might have just invented the banana daiquiri a few centuries early. Do you know, they'd never even seen a banana before? Always take a banana to a party, Rose. Bananas are good.

  [turning to the robot] 

  The Doctor : Oh, it's you! You're my favorite, you are. You know why? Cause you're so... thick! You're Mr. Thick Thick Thickety Thickface from Thicktown, Thickania.

  [turns to walk away] 

  The Doctor : And so's your dad!

  The Doctor : [gives Rose a look as if to say 'I showed him, didn't I?' or 'How do you like them apples?'] 

• The Doctor : I'm the Doctor, and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!

• The Doctor : [drunkenly]  You're so thick you probably think this is a glass of wine.

  The Doctor : [pours "wine" over robot who stops moving] 

  The Doctor : Multi-Grade Anti-Oil! "If it moves, it doesn't!"

• The Doctor : No, tonight is the Yew Tree Ball. Tonight you dance with the king!

  Reinette Poisson : [with suppressed glee]  Then first I shall make him jealous.

• The Doctor : [the Doctor arrives back on the ship to find himself alone]  Rose?... Mickey? Every time - every time! It's rule one: don't wander off! I tell them I do, rule one! There could be anything on this ship!

  [He turns a corner and comes face-to-face with a horse] 

• The Tenth Doctor : Just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry about it. Everyone has nightmares. Even monsters from under the bed has nightmares, don't you, monster?

  Reinette : What do monsters have nightmares about?

  The Tenth Doctor : Me.

• The Doctor : [drunk]  Have you met the French? My God they know how to party!

  Rose Tyler : Oh look at what the cat dragged in, the oncoming storm.

  The Doctor : You sound just like your mother.

  Rose Tyler : What have you been doing? Where have you been?

  The Doctor : Well, among other things, I *think* I may have just invented the banana daiquiri a few centuries early.

• The Doctor : [quite and confused]  Poisson?...

  [shocked and excited] 

  The Doctor : No, no, no way, Reinette Poisson? Later Madame D'Etoiles, later still mistress of Louis the XV, uncrowned Queen of French? Actress, artist, musician, dancer, courtesan. Fantastis Gardener!

  French Servant : Who the hell are you?

  The Doctor : [triumphant]  I'm the Doctor, and I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!