Colin Baker famous quotes

04-17-2025

Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when working at full efficiency, not unlike myself!
-- Colin Baker

#Brain #Efficiency #Human Brain
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
-- Colin Baker

#Forever #Vices #Sausage
I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.
-- Colin Baker

#Space #Years #People
As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
-- Colin Baker

#Thinking #Focus #Attention
I hope I'm always convincing when I act!
-- Colin Baker

#Convincing
I like challenges that test your ingenuity.
-- Colin Baker

#Challenges #Tests #Ingenuity
I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
-- Colin Baker

#Scripts #Reason #Turns
I take every job on its merits.
-- Colin Baker

#Jobs #Merit
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
-- Colin Baker

#Stories #Proud #Revision
I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.
-- Colin Baker

#Brother #Doctors #Two
I've mellowed quite quickly.
-- Colin Baker
Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.
-- Colin Baker

#Pie #Secret #Pork
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.
-- Colin Baker

#Writing #Stuff #Bigs
I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.
-- Colin Baker

#Reading #Scripts #Looking Forward
I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
-- Colin Baker

#Men #Bigs #Overweight
The waves of time wash us all clean.
-- Colin Baker

#Wave
It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
-- Colin Baker

#Doctors #Lovely #Done
If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more
-- Colin Baker

#Use
I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.
-- Colin Baker

#Cheesy #Cheese #Ill
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
-- Colin Baker

#Father #Thinking #Oxford
I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.
-- Colin Baker

#Long #Reservations
I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.
-- Colin Baker

#Doctors #Facts #Kind
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
-- Colin Baker

#Frightened #Turns
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
-- Colin Baker

#Mean #Laughing #Arms
Actors love to act all those death scenes.
-- Colin Baker

#Actors #Scene
It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks
-- Colin Baker

#Funny #Jobs #Dumb

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