Tom Baker Quotes

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!
Tom Baker

Sometimes, Four, Five

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
Tom Baker

Sad, Cool, Single

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Tom Baker

Able, Themselves, Madness

I am a one success man.
Tom Baker

I don't watch television. I know better than that.
Tom Baker

Television, Watch

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
Tom Baker

Success, Time, Failure

I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
Tom Baker

Greatest, Regrets, Doctor

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
Tom Baker

Great, Thought, Wanted

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
Tom Baker

Whole, Reading, Neurotic

I think people can believe in anything.
Tom Baker

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
Tom Baker

Life, Death, Often

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.
Tom Baker

Time, Home, Children

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
Tom Baker

Happy, Until, Doctor

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
Tom Baker

Good, Looking, Interested

I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.
Tom Baker

Funny, Good, Experience

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.
Tom Baker

Someone, Laugh, Wanted

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.
Tom Baker

Children, Long, Nothing

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.
Tom Baker

Tell, Once, Read

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.
Tom Baker

Funny, Goes, Literature

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.
Tom Baker

Important, Star, Doctor

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
Tom Baker

Rather, Lives, Drama

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.
Tom Baker

Important, Acceptance, Same

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?
Tom Baker

Funny, Laughter, Laugh

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Tom Baker

Daily, Happen, Large

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
Tom Baker

Science, Old, Reading

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Biography

Type: Actor

Born: January 20, 1934

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