Tom Baker

“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”

“To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained.”

“I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.”

“I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's not a good quality. But I've learned to live with it.”

“The older I get, the more I realise I know nothing about anything.”

“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.”

“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song.”

“Would you like a jelly baby?”

“You may be a doctor. But I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.”

“My whole life has been a struggle between the desire to be somebody and the desire to be nobody.”

“Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk.”

“I have a great faith in the wickedness of the human race. It has to be wicked to survive.”

“I think the purpose of life is to be happy. I don't think it's any more profound than that.”

“I walk in universals. My feet are everywhere.”

“I am not a nostalgic person. I'm not sentimental. I'm not a backward-looking person.”

“You can't rule the world in hiding. You've got to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave.”

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.”