I grew up reading comics – mostly Marvel – Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as an adult. It’s the only comic book movie property I’ve ever gone after. I felt uniquely suited to it. – Scott Derrickson
Most patients enter a doctor’s office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor. – Tom Brokaw
My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we’ve got medicines out here that can help, let’s put you on one of them and say we’re treating MS. – Teri Garr
I played a doctor on ‘Chicago Hope’ 15 years or so ago, and I did go and watch an open heart surgery. – Thomas Gibson
The doctor didn’t want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That’s religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn’t want to give those up. – Tom Brokaw
Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope. – William Bratton
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. – Spike Lee
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, ‘We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.’ – Stuart Scott
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don’t cast me for my looks – I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me. – Spalding Gray
I often look at a lot of Doctor Who stuff that’s about now, which no one has approached me about. – Sarah Sutton
‘Doctor Who’ is one of those things that stays with you throughout your career, and I’m very happy with that. – Sophie Aldred
I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I’d be playing Doctor Doom. – Simon Templeman
I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn’t think he said something else, I didn’t think for a second, ‘Well maybe he didn’t say it.’ No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn’t comprehend… in my mind… in my soul… he just said, ‘cancer.’ – Stuart Scott
I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it. – Sophia Bush
On ‘Love Actually,’ I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He’d call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on ‘Doctor Who.’ – Thomas Sangster
I’m human, we all are – all doctors are – and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you’d get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
My doctor said, ‘If you can weigh what you weighed in high school, you’ll essentially be healthy and not have Type 2 diabetes.’ Well, I’m gonna have Type 2 diabetes, because there is no way I can weigh as much as I did in high school. – Tom Hanks
I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor. – Yahya Jammeh
When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I’d be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in. – Stephanie Beacham
I don’t know if you’ve ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it’s a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you’ve got more than one assistant. – Sarah Sutton
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. – Siri Hustvedt
The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they’re good for me. – Sirio Maccioni
I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn’t figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me I had hip dysplasia. So I knew my hockey days were sorta limited at that point. – Wyatt Russell
If you’re working on ‘Doctor Who,’ you’ve got to be the Doctor. So yeah, I think they need a woman Doctor, and that’s who I’d like to be. – Stephanie Leonidas
I once went to a ‘Star Trek’ convention by mistake – I thought I was going to a ‘Doctor Who’ one. – Sylvester McCoy
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. – Shana Alexander
I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played ‘Doctor Who’ in the new version and they’ve all been absolutely brilliant in their own special way, as all the Doctors always are. – Sophie Aldred
