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I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me ... It was an accident.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

Amy: I never knew you drank wine.
Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life.
*takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success.
Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

Never knowingly be serious. Rule 27.

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way.
Canton: Stuff does that.

Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who

Madness is what genius looks like to a small mind

Bow ties are cool.

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger.
Clara: Really?
The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten.

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion we're leading a revolution . And today the battle begins.

The Doctor ... is embarrassingly human for an alien.

Don't be Lasagne - The Doctor

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith)

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

Nothing's sad till it's over. Then everything is.

If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best.

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

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Brainy's the new sexy.

Do what I do. Hold tight and pretend it's a plan!
- The Doctor, Season 7, Christmas Special

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

Always take a banana to a party.

Have you met the French? My ... GOD they know how to party!

The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

Everything ends and it's always sad, but everything begins again, too. And that's always happy. Be happy. - Return of Doctor Mysterio

I've finally run out of corridor. There's a life summed up.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action-for one of our scariest adventures yet!

The eyes are not the windows but the doors of the soul. Beware what may enter them.

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.

Never run when you're scared. Rule 7.

Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

Never trust a hug. It's just a way to hide your face.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.