Top 100 Moffat Quotes
#1. I'm a huge fan of 'Buffy,' 'Angel' and 'Doctor Who.' People like Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies, and Steven Moffat are really amazing about making you feel like you had a complete meal and yet leaving you hungry for more.
Andrew Kreisberg
#2. I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes 'empowered' for 'strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
Joseph Fink
#3. Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience.
Jim Jefferies
#4. When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.
Matt Smith
#5. I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.
Gina Bellman
#7. The reason gold-diggers trivialize
relationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.
Moffat Machingura
#8. 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.
Steven Moffat
#9. 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.
Steven Moffat
#10. If it's time to go, remember what you're leaving. Remember the best.
Steven Moffat
#11. She didn't fear death itself, welcoming release from her long struggle between mind and body.
Mary Jane Moffat
#12. I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.
Steven Moffat
#13. 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.
Steven Moffat
#14. Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.
Moffat Machingura
#15. War Doctor: Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about?
Eleventh Doctor: Yes.
[Claps his hands together]
Eleventh Doctor: No.
Steven Moffat
#16. 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.
Steven Moffat
#17. Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.
Steven Moffat
#18. 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!
Steven Moffat
#19. If every day you are not paying the
price to make your dreams come true,
then your everyday is a price that you
are paying to stop your dreams
coming true.
Moffat Machingura
#20. In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.
Robert Moffat
#21. My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.
Moffat Machingura
#22. My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
Steven Moffat
#23. We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset in which to win them.
Robert Moffat
#24. 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?
Steven Moffat
#25. You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
Steven Moffat
#26. Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
Steven Moffat
#27. We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.
Moffat Machingura
#28. 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.
Steven Moffat
#29. There was a goblin, or a trickster or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world ...
Steve Moffat
#30. Life is like a restaurant; you can have anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.
Moffat Machingura
#32. Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.
Moffat Machingura
#33. 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*
Steven Moffat
#34. It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
Steven Moffat
#35. There's no such thing as an ordinary human. Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before.
Stephen Moffat
#36. 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?
Steven Moffat
#38. 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
#39. No matter how long the preparation,
you will never feel ready to write an
exam, to start a business, to be parent
or even to die. Just go for it.
Moffat Machingura
#40. Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
Steven Moffat
#42. Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
Steven Moffat
#43. The first step is the hardest in every
journey of dreams. There is nothing
else to fear unto whosoever has shown
the tenacity to begin; because, once
having started, the hardest part of the
mission is the one lying behind.
Moffat Machingura
#44. Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
Steven Moffat
#45. 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.
Steven Moffat
#46. Have you met the French? My ... GOD they know how to party!
Steven Moffat
#47. 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!
Steven Moffat
#48. Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion we're leading a revolution . And today the battle begins.
Steven Moffat
#49. 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
Steven Moffat
#50. The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time ... and a crayon.
Steven Moffat
#53. You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
Steven Moffat
#54. You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
Moffat Machingura
#55. If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
Steven Moffat
#56. I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
Steven Moffat
#57. Even if you do not want to, One day
you will look back through your
life ... the Question is, what are you
going to see? How will your rate and
direction of progress make you feel?
Moffat Machingura
#58. Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me ... It was an accident.
Steven Moffat
#59. Amy: "Can I come?"
Doctor: "Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I'll be right back."
Amy: "People always say that."
Doctor: "Am I people? ... Do I even look like people? ... Trust me, I'm the Doctor.
Steven Moffat
#60. You can feel for almost everyone, but only one person can you love.
Moffat Machingura
#61. 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.
Steven Moffat
#63. 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.
Steven Moffat
#64. Some people use power, whilst they are some who let power use them.
Moffat Machingura
#65. The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
Steven Moffat
#66. The Doctor: I've seen bigger.
Clara: Really?
The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!
Steven Moffat
#67. 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.
Steven Moffat
#68. Step into the future with focus
knowing that the only way to kill your
dream is trying to find another.
Moffat Machingura
#69. Never trust a hug. It's just a way to hide your face.
Steven Moffat
#70. Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.
Steven Moffat
#71. Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who
Steven Moffat
#72. 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.
Steven Moffat
#73. Okay, this is going to be confusing, kid.-Amelia Pond to her younger self in the pandora box
Stephen Moffat
#74. Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
Steven Moffat
#75. 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.
Steven Moffat
#76. 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.
Steven Moffat
#77. Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
Steven Moffat
#78. Madness is what genius looks like to a small mind
Steven Moffat
#79. 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.
Steven Moffat
#80. 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.
Steven Moffat
#81. 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!
Steven Moffat
#82. Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action-for one of our scariest adventures yet!
Steven Moffat
#83. In life we do not attract what we want, we attract who we are.
Moffat Machingura
#85. I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
Steven Moffat
#86. It was strange what Chris was feeling within, but he didn't mind for he was loving her.
Moffat Machingura
#87. 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.
Steven Moffat
#88. If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.
Moffat Machingura
#89. So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?
Steven Moffat
#90. My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.
Steven Moffat
#91. Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.
Steven Moffat
#92. No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true.
Moffat Machingura
#93. Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.
Moffat Machingura
#95. 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.
Steven Moffat
#96. 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.
Steven Moffat
#97. Love is a timeless commodity, and it's as universal as the air we breathe.
Moffat Machingura
#98. 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.
Steven Moffat
#99. 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.
Steven Moffat
#100. I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.
Steven Moffat
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