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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. "
Kevin Whately
Hood
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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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" It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks. "
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" 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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" 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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" When I have time, I really enjoy cooking. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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You
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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 read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print. "
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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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World
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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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Walk
Strange
" 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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You
People
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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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" 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. "
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Bird
Love
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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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Alzheimer
Before
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" 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. "
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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
" Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life. "
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Your
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Phase
" With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same. "
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Own
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" Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub. "
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Pub
" 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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" 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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" 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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Time
" 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. "
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" I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time. "
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