I think quite often a fate worse than death is life – for lots of people.
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don’t you?
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.
We 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.
A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.
From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.
I’ve learned It’s the important little baby steps, which teaches us, how to grow. Moving up just one small notch, will help us more, than we know.
Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.
I’m the only man in London that ‘Don’t talk to strange men’ doesn’t apply to.
A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
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.
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.
I don’t watch television. I know better than that.
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!
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.
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.
Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls.
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 am a one success man.
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.’