Quotes by Tom Baker

About Tom Baker:

Thomas Stewart is an English actor. He is best known as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981, a longer tenure than any other actor, and for the narration of the comedy series Little Britain. Baker's voice, which has been described as "sonorous", was once voted the fourth most recognisable in the UK.
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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Tom Baker

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

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

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

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

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

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 terr...

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

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

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

Tom Baker

I think people can believe in anything.

Tom Baker

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

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

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

Tom Baker

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.

Tom Baker

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.

Tom Baker

I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who I played in the style of a crumpet-lover, and then w...

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameTom Baker
  • DescriptionEnglish actor
  • BornJanuary 20, 1934
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor