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" 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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" 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. "

Kevin Whately

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" I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits. "

" I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child. "

" 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! "

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

" People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching. "

" 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. "

Kevin Whately

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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. "

Kevin Whately

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

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

Kevin Whately

You

Telly

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

" 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. "

" I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage. "

" 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. "

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

" Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kevin Whately

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kevin Whately

Brain

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men. "

" I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit. "

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

" My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady. "