Quotes About Daleks

People said the towers looked like giant salt and pepper shakers, but I'd always thought they looked like Daleks from Doctor Who.

This had been before the war on drugs, of course, when launching military campaigns against abstract emotions or inanimate materials would have been seen as the behaviour of highly-strung and over-reaching Daleks.

Daleks: [simultaneously] Exterminate! Exterminate! [They fire their weapons, none of which so much as touch the Doctor] The Doctor: Is that it? Useless! Nul points! [to Rose and Jack] It's all right, you can come out; that forcefield can hold back anything! Jack Harkness: Almost anything. [pause] The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks.

The real achievement of the script and the people making it is that they throw the kitchen sink at us... and it all works. Daleks, Anne Robinson, the end of a complicated storyline, tears, jokes, action, more Daleks, romance, pathos, satire, an outrageous cheat and more Daleks than we have ever seen even in drawings we did as eight year olds. And then David Tennant shows up, and we realise we ain't seen nothing yet.

I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.

At this point I'm sure he's more plastic than person, but most people who hate wrinkles become Daleks over time, anyway.

The Captain, meanwhile, had been rifling through, of all things, the video cabinet. 'Is anyone going to explain what's going on?' he asked, holding up a VHS cassette on which the Doctor could just make out … ah, that was his recording of the Daleks' master plan. They'd dearly love to get that back, having lost their own copy centuries ago.