First Doctor Quotes

“Susan: Well they've treated us alright so far.
Doctor: The Aztecs always showed the utmost courtesy toward their intended victims.”
― William Hartnell, John Lucarotti

“Fear makes companions of us all.”
― Anthony Coburn

“Billy fluffs’ or ‘Hartnellisms’ (fluffed lines and errors of dialogue) became part of the Doctor’s identity, sometimes actually scripted in. In a seemingly autobiographic line of dialogue, the Doctor complains, “My writing gets worse and worse. Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear” (The Rescue). All of which begs the question about the boundary between Hartnell’s performance of the Doctor and that of his personal ‘self’.”
― Dene October, The Language of Doctor Who: From Shakespeare to Alien Tongues

“You don't understand, so you find excuses.”
― Anthony Coburn