Colin Baker Quotes

• Love is a human emotion and the doctor isn’t human.We were always told there is one golden rule: no hanky panky in the Tardis.

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

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• I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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Colin Baker (9)

Birth:	8th June, 1943
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Colin Baker was born in Waterloo, London, England. He is an English actor, who is known as Paul Merroney in The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and as the sixth incarnation of The Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986. He was educated at St Bede's College, Manchester, and originally studied to become a solicitor. One of Baker's first acting jobs, in 1970, was a supporting role in a BBC adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy The Roads to Freedom. In 1972, He played Anatole Kuragin in a BBC serial adaptation of War and Peace.

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