The Best Penny Carter Quotes

Miss: [at a press conference about the ADIPOSE pills] ADIPOSE Industries, the 21st Century way to lose weight. No exercise, no diet, no pain. Just lifelong freedom from fat, the Holy Grail of the modern age.
[holds up one of the pills in her fingers]
Miss: And here it is. You just take one capsule, one capsule once a day for three weeks, and the fat, as they say...
Presentation: The fat just walks away!
Penny: Excuse me, Miss Foster? If I could? I'm Penny Carter, science correspondant for the Observer. There are a thousand diet pills on the market, a thousand condiments with which to lose money. How do we know that the fat isn't going straight into your bank account?
Miss: Oh, Penny. If cynicism burnt up calories, we'd all be a cynic race. But if you want the science...
[takes off her glasses]
Miss: ... I'd oblige.

Miss: [with Penny tied to a chair] You know I'm surprised you never asked about my name; I chose it well.
[leans forward]
Miss: Foster... as in Foster Mother. And these
[reaches into a drawer and takes out a baby alien; setting it on her desk]
Miss: are my children.
Penny: [disturbed; and a bit frightened] Your kidding me. What the hell is that?
Miss: An Adipose. It's called an Adipose.
[smiling proudly]
Miss: Made out of living fat.

Donna: [after the Doctor pulls her in] I was right, it's always like for you!
The: Oh yes! And off we go!
[both smiling, run out of the room]
Penny: [struggling in the chair] Oi!
The: [poking his head in the doorway] Sorry.
[uses his screwdriver to break her ropes; disappears from sight as she tries to get them off]
The: [pokes his head in again] Oh, and do yourself a favor; get out.

[after spending all day hiding in a toilet stall, Donna emerges, but then gets a call from her mother, and hides back in the stall]
Donna: Not now!
Sylvia: I need the car. Where are you?
Donna: [improvising, and whispering] The car went missing!
Sylvia: Why are you whispering?
Donna: I'm in church.
Sylvia: What would you do in church?
Donna: I'm praying.
Sylvia: [scoffs] A bit late for that, I imagine.
Wilfred: What's she in church for?
Sylvia: Hush, you! Go up the hill.
[to Donna]
Sylvia: Well, I need the car. I'm going out with Suzette Chambers. She's asked all the Wednesday girls. Apparently she's been on those ADIPOSE pills. She says she looks marvelous.
[Donna hangs up because Miss Foster and her bodyguards have burst into the bathroom and are looking for her]
Miss: We know you're in here. So let's make this nice and easy and show yourself.
[Donna puts her feet up to hide herself]
Miss: I'm waiting. I warn you, I'm not a patient woman, so out you come!
[nothing]
Miss: Right, we'll do it the hard way.
[to her bodyguards]
Miss: Get her!
1st: [kicks open each stall's door. He does this four times. On the fifth door, he bursts down the door to reveal Penny Carter]
Miss: [lowers her glasses] There you are.
[takes Penny into custody]
Penny: I've been through the records, Foster, and all of your results have been faked! There's something about those pills that you're not telling us!
Miss: Oh, I think I'll be conducting this interview, Penny.
[Donna looks on as Miss Foster and her bodyguards take Penny away]

Penny: You can't tie me up! What sort of a country do you think this is?
Miss: Oh it's a beautifully fat country. And believe me I've come a long way to find obesity on this scale.

Penny: I've been through the records, Foster, and all of your results have been faked - there's something about those pills you're not telling us!
Miss: Oh I think I'll be conducting this interview, Penny.