Tom Baker Quotes

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

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.

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.

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 am a one success man.

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 think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

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.

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!

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