The Best Paul McGann Quotes

Mark: [to Alice] Whatever it is you're here to tell me, I don't want to hear it, alright. So do us a favour, get yourself an exorcist.

Mark: Did you tell him?
[pauses]
Mark: Zoe, he needs to know. All this sneaking around, it's mad. You've been separated for months. He's the only one that doesn't seem to know.
Zoe: I know, I know, I know, I know. I wasn't going to tell him when he was... You know, getting better. Now I wake up, I feel sick. I've got this permanent knot in my stomach.
[sighs and exhales]
Zoe: It's gonna kill him.
Mark: Well, you can't keep lying. It's cruel.

Golic: It was a dragon! Feeds on minds. It was- nobody can stop it!

David: Can I ask...?
Jesse: What's it like?
David: Yes.
Jesse: Do you want to find out?
David: Me? No, no - I'm too old to live forever.

Thirteenth: [looking at the Eighth Doctor's clothes] Sorry, why are you not wearing...?
Eighth: I don't do robes.
Seventh: There's always one, has to be different.
Eighth: I am a manifestation of our consciousness, I can wear what I like!

Thirteenth: Where am I, exactly? Because the last thing I remember is being forced to regenerate.
Eighth: That's why we're here, to stop you moving any further through. You are not finished.
First: *We* are not finished.
Thirteenth: We being?
Fifth: Vestiges of your consciousness.
Sixth: Fragments of yourself.
Seventh: From the past.
Eighth: Guardians of the Edge.

Golic: In an insane world, a sane man must appear insane.

Mark: Why are you here now?
Alice: Because, I'm sorry.
Mark: No, you're not.
Alice: No, no I'm not. I was just trying to empathize. I'm here because this has gone just far enough. And what I need you to do now is pick up that phone and withdraw the complaint.
Mark: And if I refuse? What if somebody actually stood up to you and refused?
Alice: Hmmm. Well then, I'd have to leave. And then one night, I'd have to come back.

Mark: No, seriously, this is what I think you should do. You should make a list of the reasons why you married him. And then make another list of the reasons why you left him. And then see if the two lists don't overlap.