- Actor | January 20, 1934 -
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!
Tom Baker
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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!
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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.
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The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
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I don't watch television. I know better than that.
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I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
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Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.
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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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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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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.
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I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
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We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
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