Quotes from Tom Baker

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

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.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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

I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

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.

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

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

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!

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'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.

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

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

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

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!

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.