Tom Baker Quotations

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.

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

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.

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 meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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

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

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

I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

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

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.

We've taken some time on this matter and we certainly don't feel the allegations made in the notice of claim are accurate.

To protect the home of the brave and the land of the free, brave men and women of our armed forces daily defend this nation's principles of Freedom and Liberty".

My customers come here for the art, especially the art. It's huge. How do you put a price tag on it?

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they?

I don't think our league gets credit for being as tough as we are. I wish people would start giving us a little credit. Anybody can win this league. It's going to be fun to see what happens at the end.

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Knock on wood, we don't have anybody injured right now.

Our student-athletes are subject to two different sets of rules, ... The athletic department's and the university's. We have a process for students and depending on the specifics of the case, that process is altered.

ordinary British folk: what is them, who do they and why?

When it rained, I ran from floor to floor and room to room, placing garbage cans and buckets under the rain that was leaking into the building,

Valor never dies as long as brave souls, willingly give their lives for our freedom. Some may take this sacrifice for granted, while parents of these soldiers pray for the safety of their children. These young men and women who protect our great country in battlefields throughout the world fight for our freedom. We must pray for their safe return, and give honor to those who have fallen.

This truck here is about $130,000, so by the time you chop up all the parts even the tires on this truck are $400 a piece.

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It's a big responsibility to be Britain's voice of text. What appeals to me most is the thought that I will be bringing good news to people whether it is a cheeky message, a birthday greeting, or just a quick hello. Whatever it is, hopefully my voice will bring a smile to people's faces.

It really all comes down to just really being out there, being observant, and checking every day to see how stuff changes.

It's going to help recruiting for all sports. People look at facilities. They don't want to play in a dump.

It?s going to help recruiting for all sports,?? he said.

The big thing would be what percent of controlled-release nitrogen is in the product.

Artists are strongly encouraged to be actively involved in the show, so they can represent themselves.

Excuse me madam, but are you trying to pull me...?

I like to make beers nobody else is making.

If you think about it, it will give us the opportunity to demand that we go back and critically asses the project in every way and to be doubly sure that we are spending citizens' dollars and resources in the best way that we can.

The road to freedom is paved with grave markers of brave men and women, who gave their lives for their country, never to come marching home, except in the hearts of the loved ones they left behind".

It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'

I am a one success man.

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 cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.

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 do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me.

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.

A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.

I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.

A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.

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.

Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.

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.

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

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

Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’.

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

I think people can believe in anything.

When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.

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 was… well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isn’t violent, he doesn’t get his leg over the girl, he doesn’t steal, and he’s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. He’s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. That’s not commercial. He’s special.

It's the end--but the moment has been prepared for.

Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.

To be adored is something I recommend

Strive to have sunshine in our hearts each day. It will greatly improve our outlook.

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

I've learned It's the important little baby steps, which teaches us, how to grow. Moving up just one small notch, will help us more, than we know.

The older I get, the older old is.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.