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Doctor Quotes

What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it’s as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that’s in the military with some kind of technical background.

– Scott Kelly

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

– Thomas R. Insel

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

– Sarah Sutton

I do actually like performing to a live audience. I like the response. I do a lot of Doctor Who conventions now, and the reason that I do them is that there is a live audience I can get to directly.

– Sylvester McCoy

‘Doctor Who’ is not as literary as ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ is – books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference… it’s more scholastic.

– Sylvester McCoy

I came in with a very specific idea about what a Doctor Strange movie should be, which was rooted in the comics, and I thought it should be as weird and as visually ambitious compared to modern comic book movies as the comic was when it showed up in the ’60s compared to other comic books at the time.

– Scott Derrickson

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

– Zebulon Pike

I’d like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor’s office.

– Sean Elliott

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

– Zubin Mehta

Watching ‘Doctor Who’ in the United States meant I was always behind the times – PBS didn’t get new episodes until two years after they ran, and I was aware of the show’s cancellation before the characters themselves knew, at least in my corner of the world.

– Seanan McGuire

I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn’t believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.

– Solange Knowles

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

– Wilma Rudolph

I love playing ‘Radagast.’ He’s my new love, you know what I mean? I’m not divorcing ‘Doctor Who.’ I’m just going to be married to a few people.

– Sylvester McCoy

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down – but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.

– Willie Nelson

Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.

– Sarah Sutton

I have no regrets about being ‘Doctor Who’. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

– Tom Baker

What I’ve found I really like about sci-fi is it can look at philosophical questions about humanity but in a different context. It can really make you think. That’s what ‘Doctor Who’ does, even if it’s a bit silly some other times.

– Sarah Snook

I enjoyed working with Peter, I was very pleased when I heard he was going to be the Doctor.

– Sarah Sutton

My concept of a ‘Doctor Who’ girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

– Sophie Aldred

I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn’t used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I’d walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.

– Sarah Sutton

There are a lot of dream roles that I couldn’t do, like James Bond and Indiana Jones; I’d never get a look in there, but actually, Doctor Who is probably the only one that I could because he’s quite quirky, and the fact that he regenerates he can actually be anyone. So one day, who knows, I might have a chance. I’d love to play that part.

– Thomas Howes

The thing about ‘Doctor Who’ is it’s chased around the world, so there’s 50 fans hanging out at every location.

– Tom Riley

Women should use pain medication only as directed and talk with their doctor about all drugs they’re taking, including over-the-counter medications. Store prescription drugs in a secure place and properly dispose of them as soon as treatment is over. And never share prescription drugs with anyone else.

– Tom Frieden

There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on ‘E.R.’ – which I’m just picking as an example – or be on a crime procedural.

– Stephen Moyer

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on ‘American Horror Story,’ I’m kind of ready to hurl.

– Taissa Farmiga

I’ve made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific – like ‘The Doctor.’

– William Hurt

There was something very special about ‘Doctor Who’, and I did miss it a lot.

– Sophie Aldred

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, ‘Congratulations, you have an actor!’

– Sally Field

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone.

– Shashi Tharoor

Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

– Simon Pegg

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