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" Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub. "
Kevin Whately
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Pub
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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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" My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Aware
" I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. "
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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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" 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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End
Possible
Best
" You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series. "
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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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Thought
Walk
Strange
" 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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See
You
Work
" I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit. "
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Past
Particularly
About
" 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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Watch
Great
Today
" 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. "
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Time
Love
Love Is
" I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly. "
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Think
Wanted
Fame
" I only really like to watch things like 'Time Team.' I'd rather be out walking the dog. It's all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest. "
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Watch
Reality
Dog
" I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage. "
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Who
Stage
Walk
" 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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Fear
Fight
Life
" 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. "
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Like
Roots
Time
" 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. "
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Me
Mother
I Am
" 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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Sentimental
Because
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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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Hood
Home
Feel
" 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. "
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Time
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Got
" Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them. "
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Mental
Brilliant
Had
" Let's just say I've never relied on my looks to make a living. "
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Living
Say
Never
" I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print. "
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Like
About
Complain
" You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles. "
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You
Alzheimer
Others
" 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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Alzheimer
Before
Disease
" I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child. "
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Since
Going
Child