Quotes by Tom Baker

• I am a one success man.
• 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!
• 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!
• Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
• 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.
• I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
• I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
• Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
• 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 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.
• Life is like a camera; focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't work out—take another shot!
• Life is like a book; some chapters are funny, some are tragic, but if you don’t turn the page, you won’t find out how it ends.