Tom Baker Quotes
Interviewer:
Now, tell me, I've often wondered, does Doctor Who sort of wake up in
the morning and get rather confused about time? I mean you must be really
confused sometimes.
Tom Baker: Yes I am, yes. I'm in a permanent
state of confusion. Really.
1979 Australia 'Countdown' Interview
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Interviewer: And infact, do any of the monsters
or Doctor Who dance to the Doctor Who theme remix at any stage?
Tom Baker: No, they're not brave enough back
home to let me do that. I'd like to do that very much.
Interviewer: What, the disco version?
Tom Baker: Yes *grins*
1979 Australia 'Countdown' Interview
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Interviewer: Do you think there may ever be
a chance that Doctor Who and Superman may run into each other?
Tom Baker: Well, I mean, that's a nice sort
of thought, but you know, with a point - I mean Superman wouldn't be any
opposition for Doctor Who really.
Interviewer: Doctor Who & Superman have
a similarity with phone boxes though.
Tom Baker: Ah, yes, but I think that's the only
way. I mean, I suppose Superman uses a phone box because, you know, he's
rather prudish and modest isn't he? Doesn't want to take his knickers
off in public. But I think compared to the character of Doctor Who he's
a bit of a bonehead Superman. I mean he just punches things out, doesn't
he?
Interviewer: He certainly does.
Tom Baker: The character I'm involved with tries
to think it out.
1979 Australia 'Countdown' Interview
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Interviewer: Fans - especially Doctor Who fans
- tend to be obsessive about things. Are you obsessive about anything?
Tom Baker: Well, 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, and for a reason I don't understand -
I don't want to understand - suddenly people said, "We thoroughly
approve of what Tom is doing there..."
1997 Skonnos Interview
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"'Would you like to go to New Zealand to do a commercial?' That's
the sort of question an actor likes to hear from his agent in freezing
mid -January."
"Not
everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest
cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office
brochure once."
"We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's
improbable."
1997 "Who On Earth Is Tom Baker?" Autobiography
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"I once married a girl who was so polite she didn't mention that
she hated me. Eventually she sent me a postcard."
"I can make a whopper sound like UNDERSTATEMENT and 'erm…' sound
like a whopper!"
[Describing himself in three words] "I mean well."
"I sometimes buy a lottery ticket and give it to the girl who sold
it to me."
"I love the fans. Every single one of them is special. Fan love never
dies either - like actors, it goes on forever. Fans are marvellous."
2001-2003 Baker's Dozen on TomBaker.tv
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Tom Baker: I do go into [French] bars and see
all these old men in berets but most of the time I don’t understand
them. In fact I’ve recently decided it’s easier to be handicapped.
One day I couldn’t see out of the window very well because of the
rain and I started rubbing the glass. Then I heard an old woman tell her
friend in French that I was probably nearly blind. And that’s what
I’ve now become. Blind. Whenever I go into this bar I pretend I’m
blind and everyone goes ‘Aaaah’. I spend minutes feeling around
for my coffee. In fact I have eyes like a hawk for someone my age but
somehow I’ve got stuck with playing a blind man. It’s not like
being with chaps in an alehouse.
2005 New Humanist Interview
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