Tom Baker Quotes

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

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

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.

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 older I get, the older old is.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

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

To be adored is something I recommend.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

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

I think people can believe in anything.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

"Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."

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

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

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.

I am a one success man.

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

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

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.