Tom Baker Quotes

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

The public makes a hit.

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

It's so fun being on the stage and in the spotlight.

For an actor, it is great to have fans.

I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

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

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

I have this mistress: show business.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

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

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

I hate show business.

The fans make the person a star.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.