Tom Baker Quotes

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• I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
• I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
• To be adored is something I recommend
• I think people can believe in anything.
• 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…
• Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
• The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
• One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?
• The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
• It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.
• Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't watch television. I know better than that.
• 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!
• Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.
• Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I…
• 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,…
• Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.
• I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing…

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