Colin Baker Quotations

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

New Geeks visit pubs, clubs and bars more than twice as often as the average person, ... (A) new, more chic geek has emerged from the bedroom.

I take every job on its merits.

I've mellowed quite quickly.

If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more

The waves of time wash us all clean.

I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!

Now I am very clear about what is important in my life. Once I might have lived to work, now I work to live for my family.

Nobody actually told us this was going to happen. It was just announced in the Lords last week.

The audition went quite well until I fell off the stage at the end. I cut my leg open and was rushed off to hospital in an ambulance. I didn't get the part and I have never stepped onto the Leatherhead stage since. Needless to say I will be extremely careful this time.

I'd enjoyed playing the part enormously; it's not often in an actor's career that he gets a plum part like Doctor Who, and to say that I foresaw myself going on a little longer is a bit of an understatement.