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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 wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to. "

" You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles. "

" People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am. "

" I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine. "

" You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously. "

" In TV, you just have to decide the night before exactly how you're going to say it and stick with that. You can't kick it around; you haven't got time. "

" With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same. "

" Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub. "

" My family have been around Northumberland for five generations. "

" When I have time, I really enjoy cooking. "

" Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community. "

" Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them. "

" From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in. "

" Let's just say I've never relied on my looks to make a living. "

" I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. "

" When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then. "

" 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. "

" You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do. "

" The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax. "

" 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. "

" Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life. "

" I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time. "

" 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! "

" The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory. "

" Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them. "

" I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her. "

" I'm not very relaxed; I always need to be doing something. "

" I'm very good at being out of work. "

" 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. "

" I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity. "