Tom Baker quotes - page 3

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)
Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid. View quote
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I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? View quote
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I think people can believe in anything. View quote
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I don't watch television. I know better than that. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (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. View quote
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The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. View quote
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I am a one success man. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. View quote
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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! View quote
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I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'. View quote
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