Kevin Whately Quotes

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• With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
• 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…
• 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…
• Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
• 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…
• 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.
• I'm very good at being out of work.
• I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.
• My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
• My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.
• People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
• The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.
• 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…
• 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 fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but…
• 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…

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