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

It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'

The older I get, the older old is.

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

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.