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! – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of ‘Doctor Who’, Lis was already a star. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it’s fantastic. It’s a kind of madness really. – Tom Baker
One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn’t it? – Tom Baker
I have no regrets about being ‘Doctor Who’. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
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! – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
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. – Tom Baker
