Doctor Who: The Movie
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The Doctor: Grace, I came back to life. I held back death. Look, I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today..

Grace: Tardis? What's a tardis?
The Doctor: A TARDIS is my ship that carries me through Time and Space. T-A-R-D-I-S. It stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

Grace: Maybe you have selective amnesia brought on by shock.
The Doctor: Maybe. I don't remember.

The Doctor: The world's about to end, and here I am, stuck in traffic.

The Doctor: Wait, I remember. I'm with my father, we're lying back in the grass, it's a warm Gallifreyan night.
Grace: Gallifreyan?
The Doctor: Gallifrey. Yes, this must be where I live. Now where is that?
Grace: I've never heard of it. What do you remember?
The Doctor: A meteor storm. The sky above us was dancing with lights. Purple, green, brilliant yellow. Yes.
Grace: What?
The Doctor: These shoes. They fit perfectly.

The Doctor: I love humans. They always see patterns in things that aren't there.

Grace: Listen, why don't you just have a seat and open your shirt? I want to listen to your heart.
The Doctor: Hearts. Plural.
Grace: Right! Right.

The Doctor: You want dominion over the living, but all you do is kill.
The Master: Life is wasted on the living.

Master/Bruce: I need the Doctor's body.
Miranda: Sense of humor, no more snoring... You don't need a doctor. Come back to bed, honey.
Master/Bruce: My name is not Honey.
Miranda: Oh well, what would you like me to call you then?
Master/Bruce: Master will do.
Miranda: Well, come back to bed, Master.

Grace: I finally meet the right guy, and he's from another planet.

The Doctor: The universe hangs by such a delicate thread of coincidences that it would be useless to meddle with it, unless like me you're a Time Lord.

Continuity mistake: When Grace is operating on the Doctor, the tray holding the surgical tools is at the end of the operating table, in the next shot (from an aerial view), you can see that the tray is over the Doctor's feet.

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Trivia: In this movie, the hinges on the small phone box door, which is contained in the larger left hand door of the Tardis are located to the right, causing the door to open from the left. In the TV series (original and new) the same door opens from the right, with hinges on the left.

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Chosen answer: I've watched a surgeon perform open-heart surgery, and the radio was on the whole time. Whether music plays is probably up to the head surgeon for the particular operation, but it is certainly allowed.

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