Kevin Whately Quotes
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When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.
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I don't see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don't want to talk about it.
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I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He's taller than me and blond. But when I see Lewis walk into a room with John Thaw, it's like my son has just come onto the screen. That's very strange indeed!
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I loved Martin Offiah, Andy Farrell and Shaun Edwards in that Wigan team, and they are still heroes today. They were outstanding players and great to watch.
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When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
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I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.
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Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.
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I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we did 'Morse' because I do still think of it as an offshoot.
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While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.
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With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
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You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.
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I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.
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With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.
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People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
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I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.
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You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
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I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.
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The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax.
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The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.
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I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.
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With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
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I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.
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When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.