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Rose Tyler

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Billie Piper studied at the prestigious 'Sylvia Young' (qv) Theatre School. She caught the eyes of record ...

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Rose Tyler Quotes

01x11 - Boom Town Season 1 / Episode 11: - Boom Town

Rose Tyler: We've got a prisoner. The police box is really a police box.
Margaret Blaine: You're not just police, though. Since you're taking me to my death, that makes *you* my executioners. Each and every one of you.
Mickey Smith: Well *you* deserve it.
Margaret Blaine: [looks straight at him] You're very quick to say so. And you're very quick to soak your hands in my blood. Which makes you better than me how, exactly? [he says nothing] Long night ahead. [walks away & sits down; finally] Let's see who can look me in the eye. [looks piercingly at each person; none hold eye contact for more than a few seconds; & the Doctor barely even looks up from his work]
01x11 - Boom Town Season 1 / Episode 11: - Boom Town

The Doctor: [looking at the project banner] How'd you think of the name?
Margaret Blaine: What? "Blaidd Drwg"? It's Welsh.
The Doctor: I know, but how did you think of it?
Margaret Blaine: Chose it at random, that's all. I don't know, just sounded good. Does it matter?
The Doctor: [turns around] "Blaidd Drwg."
Rose Tyler: What's it mean?
The Doctor: Bad Wolf.
Rose Tyler: [getting it] But... I've heard that before, "Bad Wolf", I've heard that *lots of times*.
The Doctor: Everywhere we go. Two words, following us. "Bad Wolf."
Rose Tyler: How can they be following us?
The Doctor: [concerned pause, then suddenly grins] Nah. Just a coincidence! Like hearing a word on the radio then hearing it all day. Never mind!
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Captain Jack: [when he realizes his Sonic Blaster's stopped working] Damn it! It's the special features, they really drain the battery.
Rose Tyler: The battery? [both run through the door the Doctor just opened; after she stops] It's so lame.
Captain Jack: I was going to send for another one but *somebody's* [looking at the Doctor] got to blow up the factory.
Rose Tyler: Oh, I know. First day I met him, he blew my job up. That's practically how he communicates.
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Rose Tyler: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas!
The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?
Rose Tyler: What?
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

The Doctor: [finishes locking the door with his Sonic screwdriver] Ok, that door should hold it for a bit.
Captain Jack Harkness: The Door. The wall didn't stop it!
The Doctor: Well it's got to find us first! Come on, we're not done yet! Assets, assets!
Captain Jack Harkness: Well, I've got a banana and, in a pinch, you could put up some shelves.
The Doctor: Window?
Captain Jack Harkness: Barred. Sheer drop outside. Seven storeys.
Captain Jack Harkness: [sits in a wheel chair]
Rose Tyler: And no other exits.
Captain Jack Harkness: Well, the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Rose Tyler: Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. Why is it always the *great* looking ones who do that?
The Doctor: I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
Rose Tyler: I mean... men.
The Doctor: Okay, thanks, that really helps!
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

The Doctor: Hanging from a rope, thousands of feet above London, not a cut, not a bruise.
Rose Tyler: Yeah, I know. Captain Jack fixed me up.
The Doctor: Oh, we're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?
Rose Tyler: Well, his name's Jack and he's a captain.
The Doctor: He's not really a captain, Rose.
Rose Tyler: Do you know what I think? I think you're experiencing 'Captain Envy'. You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. You may care to move them.
The Doctor: If ever he was a captain, he's been defrocked.
Rose Tyler: Yeah? Shame I missed that! [the Doctor and Rose have been teleported to Jack's ship]
Captain Jack Harkness: Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock! Most people notice when they've been teleported. You guys are so sweet!
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Captain Jack: Make yourself comfortable. Carry on with whatever it was you were... doing.
The Doctor: We were talking about dancing.
Captain Jack: It didn't look like talking.
Rose Tyler: It didn't feel like dancing.
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Captain Jack Harkness: Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple-fold sonic disruptor. Doc, what you got?
The Doctor: I've got a sonic, er, never mind.
Captain Jack Harkness: What?
The Doctor: It's sonic, okay, let's leave it at that.
Captain Jack Harkness: Disruptor? Cannon? What?
The Doctor: It's sonic, totally sonic. I am sonicked *up*!
Captain Jack Harkness: [yelling] A sonic *what*?
The Doctor: [yelling] *Screwdriver*!


Rose Tyler: [grabs Jack's Sonic Blaster and points it at the ground] Going down!

01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Captain Jack Harkness: [stands after ceiling is repaired] Who has a sonic screwdriver?
The Doctor: I do!
Rose Tyler: [ignores them] Lights.


Captain Jack Harkness: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic"?
The Doctor: What, you've never been bored?
Rose Tyler: [still searching the room] There's got to be a light switch.
The Doctor: Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
Mask Creatures: [Rose finds the lights; turns them on to find the room filled with gasmask creatures; all start chanting] Mummy? Mummy!
Captain Jack Harkness: Door.

01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Rose Tyler: Actually, Doctor, I thought Jack might like this dance.
The Doctor: I'm sure he would, Rose, I'm absolutely certain. But who with?

01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Rose Tyler: Doesn't the universe implode or something if you dance?
The Doctor: Well, I've got the moves, but I wouldn't want to boast.
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

The Doctor: Who am I to argue with history?
Rose Tyler: Usually the first in line.
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

Rose Tyler: Are the words 'distract the guard' heading in my general direction?
The Doctor: I don't think that's such a good idea.
Rose Tyler: Don't worry. I can handle it.
Captain Jack Harkness: I've gotten to know Algy quite well since I've been in town. Trust me, you're not his type. I'll distract him. Don't wait up.
The Doctor: Relax. He's a fifty-first century guy. He's just a bit more flexible when it comes to 'dancing'.
Rose Tyler: How flexible?
The Doctor: Well, by his time, you lot are spread out across half the galaxy.
Rose Tyler: Meaning?
The Doctor: So many species, so little time.
Rose Tyler: What, that's what we do when we get out there? That's our mission? We seek new life and... [weakly] and...
The Doctor: [nodding] Dance. [smiles at his clever pun]
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

The Doctor: Funny little human brains... How do you get around in those things?
Rose Tyler: When he's stressed, he likes to insult species.
The Doctor: Rose, I'm thinking.
Rose Tyler: Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than.
01x10 - The Doctor Dances Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Doctor Dances

The Doctor: [Listening to a recording of the child] It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful. It doesn't know it yet, but it will do.
The Doctor: [laughs softly] It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to its room!
Rose Tyler: [Hearing a whirring, flapping sound] Doctor...
The Empty Child: I'm here; can't you see me?
Rose Tyler: What's that noise?
The Doctor: End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago.
The Empty Child: I'm here, now! Can't you see me?
The Doctor: [realizing] I sent it to its room. *This* is its room!
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Captain Jack Harkness: I've got you. You're fine, you're just fine. The tractor beam, it can scramble your head just a little.
Rose Tyler: Hello.
Captain Jack Harkness: Hello.
Rose Tyler: Hello. Sorry, there was 'hello' twice there. Dull, but, you know, thorough.
Captain Jack Harkness: Are you all right?
Rose Tyler: I'm fine! Why, you expecting me to faint?
Captain Jack Harkness: You look a little dizzy.
Rose Tyler: What about you? You're not even in focus...! Oh, boll... [faints]
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

The Doctor: D'you know how long you can knock around space without happening to bump into Earth?
Rose Tyler: Five days? Or is that just when we're out of milk?
The Doctor: All the species in all the universe and it has to come out of a cow!
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Captain Jack Harkness: So, this companion of yours. Does he handle the business?
Rose Tyler: Well... I delegate a lot of that, yeah.
Captain Jack Harkness: Well, maybe we should go find him.
Rose Tyler: And how you gonna do that?
Captain Jack Harkness: Easy. I'll just scan for alien tech.
Rose Tyler: Finally, a professional.
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Rose Tyler: You used to be a Time Agent. Now... you're some kind of freelancer.
Captain Jack Harkness: Oh, that's a little harsh. I like to think of myself as a criminal.
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Captain Jack Harkness: So... when you say 'your companion', how disappointed should I be?
Rose Tyler: OK. We're standing in mid-air on a space-ship during a German air-raid. Do you really think now's a good time to be coming on to me?
Captain Jack Harkness: Perhaps not.
Rose Tyler: It was just a suggestion.
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Captain Jack Harkness: [Rose falls from the barrage balloon rope but is caught by a beam of light. Captain Jack speaks to her via loudspeaker] I'm just programming your descent pattern. Stay still as you can and keep your hands and feet inside the light field.
Rose Tyler: Descent pattern?
Captain Jack Harkness: [via loudspeaker] Oh, and could you switch off your cell-phone? [Rose starts to complain] No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments.
Rose Tyler: You know, no one ever believes that. [switches phone off]
Captain Jack Harkness: [via loudspeaker] Thank you, that's much better.
Rose Tyler: Oh yeah, that's a real load off, that is! I'm hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with a Union Jack across my chest but, hey, my mobile phone's off!
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Rose Tyler: What's the emergency?
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose Tyler: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognised colour for danger.
Rose Tyler: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings! All those red alerts, all that dancing.
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Rose Tyler: Do you have the time?
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

The Doctor: Mister Spock?
Rose Tyler: What was I supposed to say? You don't have a name! Don't you ever get tired of "Doctor"? Doctor Who?
The Doctor: Nine centuries in, I'm coping.
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Rose Tyler: So, who are you supposed to be then?
Captain Jack Harkness: [handing her a card] Captain Jack Harkness, 133 Squadron, Royal Air Force. American volunteer.
Rose Tyler: Liar. This is psychic paper. It tells me whatever you want it to tell me.
Captain Jack Harkness: How do you know?
Rose Tyler: Two things. One, I have a friend that uses this all the time, and two, you just handed me a piece of paper telling me you're single and you work out.
Captain Jack Harkness: Tricky thing, psychic paper.
Rose Tyler: Yeah. Can't let your mind wander when you're handing it over.
Captain Jack Harkness: [reading the paper she's just handed back] Oh, you sort of have a boyfriend called Mickey Smith, but you consider yourself to be footloose and fancy-free.
Rose Tyler: What?
Captain Jack Harkness: Actually the word you use is "available".
Rose Tyler: No way.
Captain Jack Harkness: And another one, "very".
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Rose Tyler: It's not very Spock, is it? Just asking.
The Doctor: [listening to a door] Voices, music, people. What d'you think?
Rose Tyler: I think you should do a scan for alien tech. Give me some Spock! Just once, would it kill you?
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Rose Tyler: Is it safe?
The Doctor: Perfectly.


The Doctor: Okay, *reasonably* - should have said reasonably, there.
01x09 - The Empty Child Season 1 / Episode 9: - The Empty Child

Captain Jack Harkness: Go back to what you were doing.
The Doctor: We were talking about dancing.
Captain Jack Harkness: Didn't look like talking
Rose Tyler: Didn't feel like dancing.
01x08 - Father's Day Season 1 / Episode 8: - Father's Day

Pete Tyler: Who am I, Rose?
Rose Tyler: You're my Daddy.

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