"I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring"

Tom Baker's quote shows his feelings of disappointment in his career after his time on Doctor Who. He is expressing his frustration with the jobs he has taken on considering that his time on the program, which he describes as an "overjoyed success". He is comparing his post-Doctor Who profession to his time on the program, and finds it to be a "muddle" and a "disappointment". He goes so far as to state that it has been an "outrageous failure" compared to his time on Doctor Who, which he discovers to be "so uninteresting". Tom Baker's quote shows his discontentment with his post-Doctor Who career, and his longing for the success he experienced while on the program.