I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.
Tom BakerWe 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.
Tom BakerThe thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
Tom BakerIt never occurred to me that Iโd be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I wasโฆ well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isnโt violent, he doesnโt get his leg over the girl, he doesnโt steal, and heโs rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. Heโs lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. Thatโs not commercial. Heโs special.
Tom Baker