Top 100 Steven Moffat Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. In bed above, we're deep asleep.
While greater love lies further deep.
This dream must end,
The world must know,
We all depend on the beat below.
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#3. If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best.
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#4. I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.
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#5. Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later.
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#6. War Doctor: Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?
Eleventh Doctor: Yes.
[Claps his hands together]
Eleventh Doctor: No.
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#7. The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again.
River: What face?
The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face.
River: This is my normal face.
The Doctor: Yes it is.
River: Oh, shut up.
The Doctor: Not a chance.
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#8. Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.
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#9. Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me ... nothing will ever be the same again!
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#10. My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
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#11. The Doctor: You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everything I ever stood for. You let me down!
Clara: Then why are you helping me?
The Doctor: Why? Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?
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#12. You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
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#13. Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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*
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#16. It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
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#17. The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers.
Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so ... ?
The Doctor: What?
Nancy: Nothing.
The Doctor: What?
Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?
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#18. 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.
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#19. Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
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#20. Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
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#21. Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Have you met the French? My ... GOD they know how to party!
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#24. Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!
The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?
Rose: [shocked] What?
The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me anything; I'm on fire!
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#25. Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war
Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war
Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost
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#28. You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
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#29. If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
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#30. I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
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#31. Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me ... It was an accident.
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#32. Eleventh Doctor: [points in the War Doctor's TARDIS] Look ... the round things!
Tenth Doctor: Love the round things.
Eleventh Doctor: What are the round things?
Tenth Doctor: No idea.
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#34. I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
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#35. The Doctor: I've seen bigger.
Clara: Really?
The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!
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#36. The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up.
Amelia: You're soaking wet.
The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool.
Amelia: You said you were in the library.
The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.
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#37. Never trust a hug. It's just a way to hide your face.
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#38. Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.
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#39. Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who
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#40. 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.
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#41. River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.
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#42. The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?'
Amelia: 'Yeah ... '
The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.
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#43. Madness is what genius looks like to a small mind
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#44. 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.
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#45. I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the queen should be played by a man.
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#46. 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!
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#47. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action-for one of our scariest adventures yet!
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#48. I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
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#49. The Doctor: Dr. Song, you've got that face on again.
River: What face?
The Doctor: The 'he's hot when he's clever' face.
River: This is my normal face.
The Doctor: Yes, it is.
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#50. So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?
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#51. Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.
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#53. Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.
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#54. I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
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#55. River Song: Right then. I have questions, but number one is this - what in the name of sanity have you got on your head?
The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
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#56. I think that's the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there if that's your bag, but they're not essential to your enjoyment of it. An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.
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#57. I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.
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#58. There's this issue you're not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That's the truth. We don't, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.
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#59. Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.
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#60. The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
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#62. Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.
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#63. As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.
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#64. Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!
-The Doctor (Matt Smith)
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#67. 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.
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#68. I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?
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#69. We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We've practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan ... we're probably more excited that we've ever been about Sherlock.
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#70. Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way.
Canton: Stuff does that.
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#71. Do what I do. Hold tight and pretend it's a plan!
- The Doctor, Season 7, Christmas Special
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#72. The eyes are not the windows but the doors of the soul. Beware what may enter them.
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#73. I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.
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#74. 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.
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#75. See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.
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#76. People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly ... time-y wimey ... stuff.
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#77. Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.
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#78. Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.
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#79. Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten.
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#80. Everything ends and it's always sad, but everything begins again, too. And that's always happy. Be happy. - Return of Doctor Mysterio
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#81. The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.
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#82. Nothing's sad till it's over. Then everything is.
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#83. I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
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#84. I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
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#85. Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?
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#86. All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.
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#87. The Doctor ... is embarrassingly human for an alien.
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#88. I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
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#89. I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
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#90. I've finally run out of corridor. There's a life summed up.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.
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#93. If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
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#94. Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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#96. I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.
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#97. The Doctor: You know how adults tell you everything's going to be fine, just to make you feel better?
Amelia: Yes.
Doctor: Well ... everything's going to be fine.
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#98. When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
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#100. There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
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