Top 52 Tom Baker Quotes
#1. Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
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#9. The older I get, the older old is.
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#10. 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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#11. Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.
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#12. I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?
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#17. The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
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#18. 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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#19. Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.
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#20. 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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#21. I don't watch television. I know better than that.
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#22. A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.
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#24. To be adored is something I recommend
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#25. 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.
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#26. When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
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#30. Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.
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#31. I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. I think people can believe in anything.
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#35. 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.
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#36. From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.
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#37. 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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#38. Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.
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#39. The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
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#40. 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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#41. I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
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#42. Strive to have sunshine in our hearts each day. It will greatly improve our outlook.
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#43. Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.
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#44. I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
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#45. Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.
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#46. It's the end
but the moment has been prepared for.
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#47. 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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#48. Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.
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#49. I've learned It's the important little baby steps, which teaches us, how to grow. Moving up just one small notch, will help us more, than we know.
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#50. 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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#51. Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
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#52. 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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