Tom Baker Quotes

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I played comedies and dramas.

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.