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.
Tom BakerThe success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
Tom BakerPlenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.
Tom BakerThe very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.
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