Tom Baker Quotes
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When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.
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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.
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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
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I think people can believe in anything.
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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.
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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.'
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I am a one success man.
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It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I was… well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isn’t violent, he doesn’t get his leg over the girl, he doesn’t steal, and he’s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. He’s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. That’s not commercial. He’s special.
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The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
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One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?
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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.
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You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
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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.
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I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.
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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.
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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.
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A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
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Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.
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Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago
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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.
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Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.
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It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.
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To be adored is something I recommend.
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A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.
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Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.
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Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.
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