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

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.

- Tom Baker

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.

- 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

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.

- Tom Baker

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

- Tom Baker

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!

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

- Tom Baker

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

- Tom Baker

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

- Tom Baker

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

- Tom Baker

I am a one success man.

- 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

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

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

- Tom Baker

I think people can believe in anything.

- 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

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