Tom Baker
Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart Bakeris an English actor. He is best known as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981, a longer tenure than any other actor, and for the narration of the comedy series Little Britain. Baker's voice, which has been described as "sonorous", was once voted the fourth most recognisable in the UK...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 January 1934
CityLiverpool, England
judging missing judging-others
When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.
long tree ornaments
Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago
taste dinner bad-taste
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.
laughter people laughing
One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?
reading fantasy old-testament
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
disappointment doctors kind
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.
brain mouths ratios
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
drama novelty good-drama
I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
moments ends prepared
It's the end--but the moment has been prepared for.
way scripts aliens
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
greek baths hot
Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’.
success long achievement
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
who-i-am people twelve
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!
able actors kind
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.