Tom Baker Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I wasn’t interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

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• I was never really happy until I became ‘Doctor Who’.

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• 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.

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• I think people can believe in anything.

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

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

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• I don’t watch television. I know better than that.

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• 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.

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Tom Baker (29)

Birth:	20th January, 1934
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

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