Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

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

Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.

Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.

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

The older I get, the older old is.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for.

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.

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

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.

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.