Look at this lot – how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We’re not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we’re with him matters.

In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only...

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

Rose:i love youDoctor:Quite right, and i guess if it’s my last chance to say it… Rose Tyler…(the doctor fades, him in his TARDIS, with tear tracks and a tear running down his cheek)

What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other....

Rose wasn’t ‘ordinary’. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her ‘Here, I could give you the universe, but I’m not going to in case you get hurt? There’s all...

Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you’re Father Christmas!The Doctor: Who says I’m not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?Rose: [shocked] What?The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me...

He took her by the hand and led her out of the control room and into a little side room. There, amid a lot of sculpting paraphernalia, was her statue. The statue from the museum....

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.

At least I could relate to Rose’s sense of adventure and Harriet Jones’ wacky determination and ingrained sense of responsibility. I can stomach the Tardis when my heroines are in place.

Of course, the machinery was also operating on similar frequencies to the TARDIS, so there’s a possibility that she had a hand in it somewhere…”The TARDIS…’ Rose looked at him quizzically.’Yeah, well, she does like...

I’ll tell you one thing. Being with you keeps a girl fit.’ The Doctor beamed breathlessly at her. ‘Fun to be with and good for you. Gotta be just what the doctor ordered.