Steven Moffat famous quotes

I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one.... When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms.
-- Steven Moffat

#Struggle #Dark #Men

You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.
-- Steven Moffat

#Beautiful #Mean #Acting

We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock.
-- Steven Moffat

#Thinking #Tears #Excited

Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.
-- Steven Moffat

#Challenges #Looks #Tvs

Demons run when a good man goes to war Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man goes to war Friendship dies and true love lies Night will fall and the dark will rise When a good man goes to war Demons run, but count the cost The battle's won, but the child is lost
-- Steven Moffat

#Running #Children #War

Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.
-- Steven Moffat

#Past #Time Travel

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.
-- Steven Moffat

#Children #Generations #Really Cool

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.
-- Steven Moffat

#Stories #Ends

It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!
-- Steven Moffat

#Running #Warrior #Journey

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
-- Steven Moffat

#Book #Library #Want

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
-- Steven Moffat

#Drama #Would Be #Boring

We're all stories, in the end.
-- Steven Moffat

#Stories #Ends #Doctor Who

The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever.
-- Steven Moffat

#Falling In Love #War #Hero

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.
-- Steven Moffat

#Stuff #Serious #May

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!
-- Steven Moffat

#Party #Mets

I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the queen should be played by a man.
-- Steven Moffat

#Queens #Men #Doctors

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.
-- Steven Moffat

#Believe #Thinking #Doctors

Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.
-- Steven Moffat

#Country #Apology #Men

Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!
-- Steven Moffat

#Thinking #Doors #World

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?
-- Steven Moffat

#Immature

The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and...bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.
-- Steven Moffat

#Way #Vices #Life Is

Always take a banana to a party.
-- Steven Moffat

#Party #Bananas

[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.
-- Steven Moffat

#Children #Mean #Doctors

Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*
-- Steven Moffat

#Wine #Doctors #Drunk

River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy women who like cheating people. That would be fair.
-- Steven Moffat

#Sexy #Song #Cheating

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.
-- Steven Moffat

#Stupid #Thinking #People

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.
-- Steven Moffat

#Real #Emotional #Tv Shows

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
-- Steven Moffat

#Want #Doctor Who #Universe

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!
-- Steven Moffat

#Doctors #Rose #Sound

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
-- Steven Moffat

#Witty #Mean #Writing