Quotes About Tom Baker

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.

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.

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.

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

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with 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.

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

Bob Holmes, the script editor, did laugh and filled his pipe so that he could create a smoke screen between us while he turned the idea down.