Tom Baker Quotes

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

God is the new drug.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced: the imagination is agreeably stirred; the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces the opposite effect.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.

As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.

Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this world, which I needed.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

I've never done a drug. I don't drink. I refuse to alter my mind in any way.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

People are medicated and TV is one of the things that they are medicated with.

I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I sort of stumbled into a jazz jam session, and kept going back.

I daydream all the time.