top of page

"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Funny quotes

"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."

"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."

"Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all."
Explore more quotes by Tom Baker


"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!"


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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!"


"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really."


"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."
bottom of page