115 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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