Kevin Whately Quotes

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

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

I'm very good at being out of work.

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.

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

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.

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.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

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

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

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

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

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

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

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

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.