My Favorite Quotes

Vincent And The Doctor

[The Doctor and Amy have just discovered the monster in the window of "The Church at Auvers"]
The Doctor: Something very not good, indeed.
Amy: What thing very not good?
The Doctor: Look in the window of the Church.
Amy: Is it a face?
The Doctor: Yes...
[Zoom onto the Monster in the church window]
The Doctor: And not a nice face at all. I know evil when I see it and I see it in that window.

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The Doctor: Thank you sir, very helpful indeed. Nice bowtie! Bow ties are cool.
Man: Yours is very -
The Doctor: Oh thank you, keep telling them stuff [to Amy] come on
Amy: What about the other pictures?
The Doctor: Art can wait, this is life and death. We need to talk to Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent: Your hair is orange.
Amy: Yes, so is yours
Vincent: Yes. It was more orange but now is of course...less

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Vinvent: Where are you staying tonight?
The Doctor: Oh, you are very kind!

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Vincent: It seems to me there is so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamed of. It's colour! Colour that holds the key! I can hear the colours, listen to them. Every time I step outside, I feel nature is shouting at me. Come on! Come and get me! Come on! Capture my mystery!
The Doctor: Maybe you've had enough coffee now, how about some nice, calming tea? Let's get you a cup of chamomile or something shall we?

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Vincent is attacking an invisible creature. Doctor grabs a stick.

The Doctor: Let me help you
Vincent: You can see him too?
The Doctor: Yes...ish... well...no, not really.

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Amy: [talking to the Doctor] You do have a plan, don't you?
The Doctor: No... It's a Thing; it's like a plan, but with more greatness.

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Vincent:Shhh, I'm working.
Thr Doctor: Oh, yes, paint. Do painting! (Later) I remember watching Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. Wow! What a whinger! I kept saying to him, look if you’re scared of heights you shouldn’t have taken the job mate!
Amy: Shhh!
The Doctor:(later) And Picasso, what a ghastly old goat I kept telling him, concentrate Pablo, it’s one eye either side of the face
Amy: (hits him) Quiet!
Doctor: Is this how time normally passes? Reeeally slowly. (disgusted) In the right order. One thing I can’t stand it’s an unpunctual alien attack!

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Vincent: But you're not armed!
The Doctor: I am.
Vincent: What with?
The Doctor: Over-confidence, this [taps suitcase], and a small screwdriver. I'm absolutely sorted.

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The Doctor: [talking to Vincent and Amy] One simple instruction, don't follow me under any circumstances.
Vincent: Will you follow him?
Amy: [in an obvious tone] Of course!
Vincent: I love you.

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Doctor: Absolutely quiet…could you breathe a little quieter please?
Amy: No!

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Doctor: That’s impressive hearing he’s got, what’s less impressive is our chances of survival.

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Doctor: Where is he?
Vincent: Where do you think he is you idiot, use your head!

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Doctor: I don’t know, my only definite plan is that in the future I am definitely only using this screwdriver for screwing in screws.

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Doctor: I am really stupid
Amy: Oh, get a grip! This is not a moment to re evaluate your self esteem!
Doctor: No, I really am stupid and I’m growing old. Why does it attack but never eat its victims and why was it abandoned by your pack and left it to die and why is it feeling its way helplessly around the walls of the room? It can’t see its blind. That of course explains why it has such perfect hearing!
Vincent: Which unfortunately now explains why it is now turning aroung and heading straight for us!

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Vincent: Hold my hand, Doctor. Try to see what I see. We're sort of lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lighter blue. [the starscape slowly transforms into "The Starry Night"] And blowing through the blueness and the blackness, the winds swirling through the air. And there shining, burning, bursting through, the stars! Can you see how they roll their light? Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
Doctor: I’ve seen many things my friend but you’re right, nothing quite as wonderful as the things you see.

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Vincent: (upon entering the TARDIS) How come I’m the crazy one and you two have stayed sane? What do these things all do?
Doctor: Oh, a huge variety of things. This one here for instance plays soothing music while this one makes a huge amount of noise! This one makes absolutely everything go top to toe
Vincent: And this one?
Doctor: [rushing to stop him] THAT’S A friction pull manipulator!

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[The Doctor has taken the Vincent forward in time to the van Gogh exhibition in Museé d'Orsay, 2010]
The Doctor: Dr Black? We met a few days ago; I asked you about The Church at Auvers.
Dr Black: Ah, yes; glad to be of help. You were nice about my tie.
The Doctor: And today is another cracker if I may say so. [steering Dr Black into Vincent's vicinity] But I just wondered between you and me in 100 words where do you think Van Gough rates in the history of art?
Dr Black: Well... big question, but to me, van Gogh is the finest painter of them all; certainly the most popular great painter of all time: The most beloved; his most command of colour; the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstacy and joy and magnificence of our world... no-one had ever done it before. Perhaps no-one ever will again. To my mind that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.
[Vincent, already in shock, starts breaking down in tears]
Doctor: Vincent, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, is it too much?
Vincent: No, they are tears of joy! Thank you sir, thank you. [kisses Dr Black in gratitude] Sorry about the beard.

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The Doctor: The way I see it, life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.

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Amy: If we had got married our children would have had very very red hair.
Doctor: The ultimate ginger
Amy: The ultimate ginge.