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Doctor Quotes

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back – only the fringes!

– Otto Preminger

Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It’s unthinkable. But that’s patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

– Peter York

I’m now convinced that I’m a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I’m like, ‘Well, that’s your spleen.’

– Olivia Wilde

I love ‘Doctor Who.’

– Richard Madden

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

– Rodney Dangerfield

Even if ‘going retrograde’ or ‘moving into Aquarius’ were real phenomena, something that planets actually do, what influence could they possibly have on human events? A planet is so far away that its gravitational pull on a new-born baby would be swamped by the gravitational pull of the doctor’s paunch.

– Richard Dawkins

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.

– Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

– Robert Jay Lifton

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‘All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.’

– Steven Wright

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

– Thomas Fuller

Every intelligent person, whether he’s an artist or not – a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist – possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

– Yehuda Amichai

This is the launch of the ‘Doctor Strange’ film interpretation of – in my view – a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists, and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

– Tilda Swinton

What’s quote-unquote a ‘good’ lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you’re a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

– Sonia Sotomayor

I was never really happy until I became ‘Doctor Who’.

– Tom Baker

I don’t know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, ‘Hey, you’ve got less than two months to live and there’s nothing we can do for you.’ Who do they turn to when you’re given something that earth shattering?

– Si Robertson

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

– Sarah Chalke

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

– Sigmund Freud

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

– Stephen Hawking

I’m guess I’m up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I’ve been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.

– Wil Wheaton

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

– Ted Cruz

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

– Sophocles

There’s still a part of me that believes what was great about ‘Doctor Who’ in the early days was that you had a superhero who didn’t wear his underpants on the outside of his trousers, who used his brain rather than his brawn.

– Sylvester McCoy

My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point – almost too late, really, but in time – they were all sent overseas by their employer.

– Tom Stoppard

Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children’s hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.

– Siddhartha Mukherjee

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of ‘Doctor Who’, Lis was already a star.

– Tom Baker

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it’s a real doctor… I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you’d think they’d be in nature.

– Simon Helberg

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.

– Walter Matthau

Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor – that’s why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I graduated with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Really, the plan was for me to go to med school.

– Steven Yeun

The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.

– Shaffi Mather

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

– Simon Callow

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