Tom Baker
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"Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker" is an English actor. He is best known for his role as the Fourth Doctor/fourth incarnation of Doctor (Doctor Who)/the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who, which he played from 1974 to 1981. In a 2005 poll, his voice was found to be the fourth most recognisable in Britain.

At the age of 15 Baker became a novice monk with the Brothers of Christian Instruction/De la Mennais Brothers in Jersey and later in Shropshire. However, he gradually lost his vocation and when 21 he left monastic life and undertook National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. On leaving the army, he joined the Merchant Navy and then became an actor joining the Royal National Theatre/Royal National Theatre Company under Laurence Olivier.

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I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.

Sometimes when I watch very famous people on television, they make me long for death! These utterly pitiful little exhibitionists who don't nourish anyone but just talk very loudly are now actually guiding us and telling us what to think. I think, 'Well, one day I'll be dead and then I'll get away from you.'

The countryside is incredibly boring. There's lots of shagging, lots of murders, lots of sarcasm, lots of treachery, and lots of bad cooking, but it's all hidden. You've got all the space and the flowers, but it's dull!

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I am a one success man.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they?

I've had to hold back certain things for legal reasons, or just out of common decency, but I think autobiography has got to be selected confessions, hasn't it? I could have said jolly things about some of the dreadful people I've spent my life with, but it would have been a cheat.

Artists are strongly encouraged to be actively involved in the show, so they can represent themselves.

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.