It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial product, because I was… well, I was playing this slightly messianic alien. He isn’t violent, he doesn’t get his leg over the girl, he doesn’t steal, and he’s rather wry, and adorable, and mysterious. He’s lived for 900 years or something. He lives the life of the old patriarchs of the Old Testament. That’s not commercial. He’s special.
Tom BakerI 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.
Tom BakerPoliticians 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!
Tom BakerActors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Tom Baker