This page is a collection of quotations from the era of the eighth official incarnation of the the Doctor from the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who, during which the role of the Eighth Doctor was played by Paul McGann.

Amongst the television Doctors, the Eighth Doctor is unique in the fact that his only onscreen appearence was in the 1996 television movie Doctor Who, although he went on to feature in further novels and audios. In order to avoid confusion with the rest of the series, the movie is usually referred to as "The Television Movie", "TVM" or "Enemy Within".

Doctor Who

[Opening narration.]

The Doctor: It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy, the Master, was finally put on trial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read and sentence passed. Then he made his last, and I thought somewhat curious, request. He demanded that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should take his remains back to our home planet - Gallifrey. It was a request they should never have granted.

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[Narrating]

The Doctor: A Time Lord has 13 lives and the Master had used all of his. But rules never meant much to him, so I stowed his remains safely for the voyage back. Because even in death, I couldn't trust him. In all my travels through space and time, and nearing the end of my seventh life, I was finally beginning to realise that you could never be too careful.

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[As the Seventh Doctor.]

The Doctor: I am not human. I am not like you.

Grace: Nobody's like me, Mr. Smith.

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[The Seventh Doctor's final words before regenerating.]

The Doctor: Timing malfunction. The Master! He's out there. I've got to stop him.

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The Doctor: Grace, I came back to life before your eyes. I held back death. Look, I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today.

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The Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

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The Doctor: Look over there! On the other side of your galaxy, that's home.

Grace: [astonished] Gallifrey.

The Doctor: 250 million light years away. That's a good 10 minutes in this old thing.

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The Doctor: You want dominion over the living, yet all you do is KILL!

The Master: Life is wasted on the living!

The Faith Stealer

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The Doctor: Charley and I are tourists, we worship C'rizz here, and we start each Day with a ritualistic cup of tea.