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" 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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You

Acceptance

Believe

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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. "

" The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. "

" 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. "

" Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tom Baker

Taste

Seen

" I don't watch television. I know better than that. "

" 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 have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. "

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No Regrets

Regrets

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star. "

" One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? "

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

" I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'. "

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

" Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid. "

" I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? "

" 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. "

" 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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See

Face

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