J. A. Baker Quotes

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.

A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and I've had a boyfriend since college.

The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

I was probably not the first to lose my virginity among my friends. I was definitely one of the last ones to reach puberty - I didn't grow until the last couple years of high school.

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

I love con-men characters in film.

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

I've always been a shy person.

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

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!

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.

Brighten someone's by adding a spoon full of kindness.

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 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.

From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

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.'

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

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 was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.