Colin Baker Quotes & Sayings

“I like challenges that test your ingenuity.”

“I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.”

“I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.”

“I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.”

“I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.”

“I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.”

“I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.”

“One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.”

“I've mellowed quite quickly.”

“It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.”