David Tennant credited as playing...
The Doctor
- The Doctor: [drunk and talking to a robot] It's you! You're my favourite! You are the best, you know why? Cause you're so thick! You're mister thick thickity thick face from thicktown thickannia. And so is your Dad!
- Mickey Smith: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
- The Doctor: Mickey, what's Pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!
- 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!
- The Doctor: [the Doctor is searching through Reinette's memories] Sorry, you might find old memories reawakening, side effect.
- Reinette Poisson: Oh, such a lonely childhood!
- The Doctor: It'll pass.
- Reinette Poisson: Oh, Doctor, so lonely, so very very alone!
- The Doctor: What do mean, lonely? You've never been alone in your whole life- wait a minute, when did you start calling me Doctor?
- Reinette Poisson: Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now! How can you bear it?
- The Doctor: [breaking the mental connection] How did you do that?
- Reinette Poisson: A door, once opened, may be stepped through in either direction. Oh, Doctor, my lonely Doctor... dance with me.
- The Doctor: I can't.
- Reinette Poisson: Dance with me.
- The Doctor: This is the night you dance with the king.
- Reinette Poisson: Then first I shall make him jealous.
- The Doctor: I can't.
- Reinette Poisson: Doctor. Doctor who? It's more than just a secret, isn't it.
- The Doctor: What did you see?
- Reinette Poisson: That there comes a time, Timelord, when every lonely little boy must learn how to dance!
- The Doctor: Go! and take Arthur!
- Rose Tyler: Arthur?
- The Doctor: Fine name for a horse.
- Rose Tyler: No you can't keep the horse.
- The Doctor: Why not? I let you keep Mickey! Now go!
- The Doctor: [hears ticking noise and sees broken clock] Okay that's scary.
- Young Reinette: You're scared of a broken clock?
- The Doctor: Just a bit scared, yeah. Just a tiny bit. 'Cause you see, if this clock's broken, and it's the only one in the room, than what's that?
- Rose Tyler: [about Madame De Pompadour] The Queen must've loved her.
- The Doctor: Oh, she did. They got on very well.
- Mickey Smith: The King's wife and the King's girlfriend?
- The Doctor: France. It's a different planet.
- Manservant: Who the hell are you?
- The Doctor: [laughing] I'm The Doctor. And I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!
- King Louis: What the hell is going on?
- Reinette Poisson: Oh. This is my lover, the king of France.
- The Doctor: Yeah? Well I'm the Lord of Time.
- The Doctor: Reinette, what age are you?
- Reinette Poisson: So impertinent a question so early in the conversation! How promising.
- The Doctor: Oh, you are beautiful! No really, you are, you're gorgeous! Space-age clockwork, I love it, I've got chills! Listen, I mean this from the heart- and by the way, count those- it would be a crime, it would be an act of vandalism to disassemble you. But that won't stop me.
- Rose Tyler: Who is she?
- The Doctor: Jeanne-Antionette Poisson, known to her friends as Reinette. One of the most accomplished women who ever lived.
- Rose Tyler: Has she got plans on being the queen, then?
- The Doctor: No, he's already got a queen. She's got plans on being his mistress.
- Rose Tyler: Oh, I get it. Camilla!
- Rose Tyler: [the Doctor enters, singing "I Could Have Danced All Night", seemingly drunk] Oh, look what the cat dragged in, the oncoming storm.
- The Doctor: Oh, you sound just like your mother.
- Rose Tyler: What have you been doing, where've you been?
- The Doctor: Well, among other things, I *think* I just invented the banana daiquiri a couple of centuries early. Do you know they'd never seen a banana before? Always take a banana to a party, Rose, bananas are good.
- [to the droid]
- The Doctor: Oh, brilliant, it's you! You're my favorite, you are, you are the best, you know why? Cause you're so thick! You're Mr. Thick Thick Thickety Thick-face from Thick-town, Thickania. And so's your dad!
- Mickey Smith: It's a spaceship! Brilliant, I got a spaceship on my first go!
- Rose Tyler: Looks kind of abandoned. Anyone on board?
- The Doctor: Nah, nothing here. Well, nothing dangerous. Well, not that dangerous. Know what, I'll just have a quick scan... in case there's anything dangerous.
- The Doctor: [coming back to a different time] Reinette... well, goodness how you've grown.
- Madame Du Pompadour: And you don't appear to have aged a single day. I think that is tremendously impolite of you.
- The Doctor: Must be a spatio-temporal hyperlink.
- Mickey Smith: What's that?
- The Doctor: No idea, I just made it up. Didn't want to say "Magic Door"
- Madame Du Pompadour: You seem to be flesh and blood but this is absurd. Reason tells me you cannot be real
- The Doctor: Oh, you don't want to listen to reason.
- The Doctor: [reading Reinette's mind] If there's anything you don't want me to see, just imagine a door, and close it.
- [pause]
- The Doctor: Actually, there's a door there, you may want to just... ooh...
- [Reinette smiles mischievously]
- The Doctor: [the Doctor arrives back on the ship to find himself alone] Rose?... Mickey? Every time - every time! It's rule one: don't wander off! I tell them I do, rule one! There could be anything on this ship!
- [he turns a corner and comes face-to-face with a horse]