The best Quotes by Tom Baker

The best Quotes by Tom Baker

Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor and writer. He played the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981. Later in his career, Baker performed in the television series Medics (1992–1995), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000–2001) and Monarch of the Glen (2004–2005). He also provided narration for the television comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006).

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
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.
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.
I am a one success man.

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I am the Doctor, wether you like it or not.
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Don´t blink! Don´t even blink. Blink and you are dead! They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don´t blink! Don´t turn you back, don´t look away and don´t blink! Good luck!
10th Doctor in Doctor Who - Season 3 Episode 10
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I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be.
Rose Tyler in Doctor Who - Season 1 Episode 13
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I've got no A-Levels, no job, no future... but I tell ya what I have got - Jericho Street Junior School - Under Sevens Gymnastic Team - I got the Bronze!
1
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and can see the turn of the universe.
And... he's wonderful.
Doctor Who - Season 3 Episode 9
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Demons run, when a good man goes to war.
Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war.
Friendship dies an true love lies, when good man goes to war.
Night will fall and the dark will rise.
When good man goes to war.
Demons run, but count the cost.
The battel is won, but the child is lost.
River Song in Doctor Who - Season 6
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All what you are going in a breath like on a mirrorw. Any moment now is coming. But it is time of change - and so must I. We all change, when you think about it. We are all different people, althrough our lives. But that´s ok, that´s good. You gotta keep moving. So long as you remember all the peope that you used to be.
2
For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.
2
Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!
Louis de Funès - Der Querkopf
It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.
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What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
3
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
1
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
1
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.
I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"
We think too much and feel too little.
14
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
13
If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
1
I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.
I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.
Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.
1
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
3
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Vanity is my favourite sin.
I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
63
If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
43
I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

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