Quotes

[on Doctor Who (1963)] I didn't actually audition. But when Jon Pertwee was leaving, producer Barry Letts--who died quite recently--interviewed a lot of actors, one of whom was me. I went along and sat down and he said, "Now, then, what can you do?" I said, "I'm a very good swimmer, I was a paratrooper, I could fight"--and he said, "Oh no, no fighting no, the Doctor is never seen fighting at all!" So Tom Baker became the next Doctor, and one of the first things I remember him doing was knocking somebody out.

[on being awarded the OBE] Gobsmacked! You can't go through life expecting to get prizes. You just get on with things, which is how it should be.

"Do your best and be grateful for every single job" - advice that he gives in his autobiography "Bernard Who? 75 Years Of Doing Absolutely Everything", published in 2018.