Tom Baker Quotes & Sayings
29 most famous Tom Baker quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a British actor who passed away on 2 September, 1982.
“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!”
“It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.”
“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.”
“One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?”
“I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
“Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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