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
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!
children home lice
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.
doctors laughing people
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.
doctors really-happy doctor-who
I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
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.
drama life-is our-lives
Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
darkness feelings trying
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.
believe thinking people
I think people can believe in anything.
judging missing judging-others
When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.
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.
girl live-life years
It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I was… well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isn’t violent, he doesn’t get his leg over the girl, he doesn’t steal, and he’s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. He’s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. That’s not commercial. He’s special.