The Doctor: You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle, if you pardon the expression.
Quotes from Sylvester McCoy movies and TV shows
Castrovalva - S19-E1
The Doctor: That's the trouble with regeneration, you never quite know what you're going to get. (00:12:15)
The Doctor: This is a situation that requires tact and finesse. Fortunately, I am blessed with both.
The Doctor: As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.
The Doctor: You're a beautiful woman, probably the best.
The Doctor: Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again.
The Doctor: Oh, marvellous. You're going to kill me. What a finely-tuned response to the situation.
The Doctor: I think you'll find, Sir, that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose.
The Doctor: Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.
The Doctor: I'm not only from another culture but another planet. I am in your terms an alien.
The Doctor: Grace, I came back to life. I held back death. Look, I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today..
The Doctor: Wait, I remember. I'm with my father, we're lying back in the grass, it's a warm Gallifreyan night.
Grace: Gallifreyan?
The Doctor: Gallifrey. Yes, this must be where I live. Now where is that?
Grace: I've never heard of it. What do you remember?
The Doctor: A meteor storm. The sky above us was dancing with lights. Purple, green, brilliant yellow. Yes.
Grace: What?
The Doctor: These shoes. They fit perfectly.
The Doctor: I love humans. They always see patterns in things that aren't there.
Grace: Listen, why don't you just have a seat and open your shirt? I want to listen to your heart.
The Doctor: Hearts. Plural.
Grace: Right! Right.
The Doctor: You want dominion over the living, but all you do is kill.
The Master: Life is wasted on the living.
The Doctor: The universe hangs by such a delicate thread of coincidences that it would be useless to meddle with it, unless like me you're a Time Lord.
Grace: Tardis? What's a tardis?
The Doctor: A TARDIS is my ship that carries me through Time and Space. T-A-R-D-I-S. It stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space.
Grace: Maybe you have selective amnesia brought on by shock.
The Doctor: Maybe. I don't remember.
The Doctor: The world's about to end, and here I am, stuck in traffic.
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