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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! "
Tom Baker
Daily
Politicians
Know
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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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Drink
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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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World
You
Doctor
" I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'. "
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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! "
Tom Baker
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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. "
Tom Baker
Single
Sad
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" I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. "
Tom Baker
Looking
Interested
Good
" I think people can believe in anything. "
Tom Baker
Believe
People
Think
" 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. "
Tom Baker
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People
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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. "
Tom Baker
See
Me
Face
" 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. "
Tom Baker
Better
Feel
Wife
" I don't watch television. I know better than that. "
Tom Baker
Know
Watch
Television
" Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid. "
Tom Baker
Really
Our
Drama
" The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. "
Tom Baker
Reading
Old
Science
" I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people. "
Tom Baker
Think
Death
Fate
" 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. "
Tom Baker
You
Acceptance
Believe
" One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? "
Tom Baker
Laugh
Laughter
Approval
" 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. "
Tom Baker
Experience
Funny
Good
" Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really. "
Tom Baker
Trick
Really
Madness
" I am a one success man. "
Tom Baker
Am
Man
Success
" 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. "
Tom Baker
Time
Success
Disappointment
" 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. "
Tom Baker
Home
Children
Always
" 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. "
Tom Baker
Nothing
Hero
Children
" It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory. "
Tom Baker
Funny
Literature
Goes
" 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. "
Tom Baker
Great
Way
Know
" I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? "
Tom Baker
Reading
Think
Whole
" I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. "
Tom Baker
Me
No Regrets
Regrets
" 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
Me
Taste
Seen