Colin Baker Quotes

Actors love to act all those death scenes.
Colin Baker

Love, Death, Act

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
Colin Baker

Big, Condition, Overweight

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.
Colin Baker

Forward, Remember, Looking

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.
Colin Baker

Movie, Doctor, Asked

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!
Colin Baker

Hope, Act, Convincing

I like challenges that test your ingenuity.
Colin Baker

Test, Challenges, Ingenuity

I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.
Colin Baker

Makes, Cheese, Ill

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.
Colin Baker

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
Colin Baker

Work, Good, Down

I take every job on its merits.
Colin Baker

I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
Colin Baker

Work, Big, Proud

I've mellowed quite quickly.
Colin Baker

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
Colin Baker

Work, Good, Down

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.
Colin Baker

Done, Lovely, Since

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.
Colin Baker

Lose, Secret, Fail

The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.
Colin Baker

Writing, Big, Getting

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
Colin Baker

Time, Focus, Small

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
Colin Baker

Good, End, Father

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
Colin Baker

Life, Food, Put

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.
Colin Baker

Business, Else, Fact

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.
Colin Baker

Remember, Two, Before

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
Colin Baker

Fear, Mean, Laugh

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: June 8, 1943

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