Kevin Whately Quotes
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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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When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.
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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 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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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 not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.
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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 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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Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.
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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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I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.
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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 hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.