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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension. "

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

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

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

" I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly. "

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

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

" You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks. "

" I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print. "