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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I loathe cheese, it makes me ill. |
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Vote: | I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning. |
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Vote: | I'd enjoyed playing the part enormously; it's not often in an actor's career that he gets a plum part like Doctor Who, and to say that I foresaw myself going on a little longer is a bit of an understatement. |
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Vote: | If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. |
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Vote: | It really does matter who's inside a cybersui,t and if you get an actor who's prepared to walk through a part like that, then there's no menace. |
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Vote: | It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who. |
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Vote: | Now I am very clear about what is important in my life. Once I might have lived to work, now I work to live for my family. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Colin Baker (born June 8, 1943) is a British actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. Playing the Doctor from 1984 to 1986, he had a mass of curly fair hair and a lurid patchwork coat, and was assisted by companions Peri and Mel.
Before being selected to replace Peter Davison as the Doctor, Baker was an established television actor, his most notable role having been that of Paul Merroney in The Brothers. Baker also appeared as a guest star in an episode of Blake's 7.
Before taking over as the Doctor, he guest starred in the programme (as Commander Maxil, in the Davison serial Arc of Infinity), being the only Doctor to have done so. At one point in the serial Maxil shoots the Peter Davison Doctor, and Baker often jokes that he got the role by killing the incumbent.
Baker's era was interrupted by a long hiatus, officially because the show was moved back from the spring to the autumn schedules and he was ultimately sacked from the role at the insistence of BBC management wanting to refresh the show. The Controller of BBC One at the time, Michael Grade, criticized Doctor Who, saying it had become overly violent, and storylines were becoming farcical.
Since leaving Doctor Who he has continued to act, mainly on the stage. He played the Doctor once again in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time. He has also played a Doctor-like character in the BBV video series The Stranger and reprised the role of the Doctor in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. The audio plays are generally well received by fans, who have suggested that it was bad writing that his Doctor's era suffered from, and not a lack of ability on Baker's part.
Later television work during the 1990s included guest appearances in the BBC's medical drama Casualty, Channel 4's adaptation of A Dance to the Music of Time and as himself as the resident celebrity in 'Dictionary Corner' on the daytime quiz show Countdown, also on Channel 4. He appeared in the first episode of Jonathan Creek (1997).
Since the death of his son in 1983 he has been active in raising the profile of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome research, and is the current chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.
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