Tom Baker Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

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

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

I think people can believe in anything.

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

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.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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

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

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

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

I am a one success man.

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.'

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.

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

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

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.

To be adored is something I recommend

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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