115 Quotes by Tom Baker

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

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.

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.’

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you’re an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

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

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