"Waiting for a 136 bus from Highgate station to Muswell Hill Broadway on a misty evening in February is a bit like lurking outside the gates of purgatory."
Thomas Stewart Baker is an English actor and writer. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981, making him the longest-serving actor in the role.
"But it was drama, high drama: fires at night, the fires that burned peoples houses away; bombs fell and left exotically shaped fragments in the form of shrapnel. And we collected it and traded it. As long as we were not hurt -- and I wasnt -- life seemed wonderful."
"Would you like to go to New Zealand to do a commercial?" Thats the sort of question an actor likes to hear from his agent in freezing mid -January."
"We even copied the way the Americans walked, though Father Leonard didnt like that bit of admiration. He disapproved of rolling buttocks."
"The notion that God was everywhere put paid to any possible peace of mind by the time I was six."
"The chaos of our lives suited me; I dont think I wanted it to end."
"When the doctor was there, Alfred refused to believe that hed had a stroke. "I cant have had a stroke," he grated, in a terrible rage, "Ive got 93,000 pounds in my current account."