Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Baker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Tom Baker.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Thomas Stewart Baker is an English actor and writer. He is well known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981, a longer tenure than any other actor in the title role. He also provided narration in the television comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Little Britain USA (2008). His voice, which has been described as "sonorous", was voted the fourth-most recognisable in the UK in 2006.

English - Actor | Born: January 20, 1934

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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

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

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

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

I am a one success man.

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 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.

Tom Baker

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

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 Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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

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

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 think people can believe in anything.

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

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

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

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'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

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

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Tom Baker

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

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

The older I get, the older old is.

Tom Baker

To be adored is something I recommend.

Tom Baker

Strive to have sunshine in our hearts each day. It will greatly improve our outlook.

Tom Baker

Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

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

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.

Tom Baker

A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.

Tom Baker

It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'

Tom Baker

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

Tom Baker

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

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.

Tom Baker

From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.

Tom Baker

Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.

Tom Baker

I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

Tom Baker

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

Tom Baker

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.

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

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

Tom Baker

I've learned It's the important little baby steps, which teaches us, how to grow. Moving up just one small notch, will help us more, than we know.

Tom Baker

I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

Tom Baker

Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.

Tom Baker

Top 58 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Baker

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