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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. "
Kevin Whately
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" It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks. "
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" I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. "
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" I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child. "
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" 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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" 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 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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" Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there. "
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" Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life. "
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" McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory. "
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" 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. "
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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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