I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.
I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.
I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.
A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.
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.
Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.
From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.
I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.
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!
The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
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.
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.
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.
I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me.
A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.
I don't watch television. I know better than that.
My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.
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.'
Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.
