Tom Baker Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
• Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’.
• Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that…
• Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.
• 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,…
• It's the end--but the moment has been prepared for.
• I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
• You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
• It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I…
• Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
• Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If…
• The older I get, the older old is.
• Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
• Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.
• Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.
• I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
• 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…

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