Best Tom Baker Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'. — Tom Baker

I was playing Rasputin and what was motivating him was crumpet really, and I was extremely keen on crumpet so I was really rather good as Rasputin. And my next catastrophic failure was Macbeth, who I played in the style of a crumpet-lover, and then when Doctor Who came along, I embraced this lunacy, this cloud-cuckoo-land where people had to be convinced by absolute nonsense. I came from a very religious background, so it was easy for me to believe in something I knew nothing about. — 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

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

Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker. — Lalla Ward

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

Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier. — Peter Capaldi

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. — 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

The older I get, the older old is. — Tom Baker

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

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know' — Arabella Weir

I wish my name was Tom Kite. — Ian Baker-Finch

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

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

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

The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven. — Tom Douglas

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

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything. — David Tennant

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

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

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

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 don't watch television. I know better than that. — Tom Baker

It's the end
but the moment has been prepared for. — Tom Baker