Quote

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

Tom Baker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Baker
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 20
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
City of Liverpool
Thomas Baker
Thomas Stewart Baker
Especially
Friend
Poor
Success
Often
Long
Wounding
Achievement
Close

More quotes by Tom Baker

Image
It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.
Tom Baker
Image
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.
Tom Baker
Image
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.
Tom Baker
Image
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
Tom Baker
Image
I don't watch television. I know better than that.
Tom Baker
Image
You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
Tom Baker
Image
To be adored is something I recommend.
Tom Baker
Image
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Tom Baker
Image
From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.
Tom Baker
Image
Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!
Tom Baker
Image
Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.
Tom Baker
Image
I think people can believe in anything.
Tom Baker
Image
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!
Tom Baker
Image
Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.
Tom Baker
Image
The 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 Baker
Image
When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.
Tom Baker
Image
Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
Tom Baker
Image
I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
Tom Baker
Image
I am a one success man.
Tom Baker
Image
A great tribute, is expressing the great love for a Grandmother we share with our children.
Tom Baker