Tom Baker Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”