Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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!

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

I loved Martin Offiah, Andy Farrell and Shaun Edwards in that Wigan team, and they are still heroes today. They were outstanding players and great to watch.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it. You're aware that if you're nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha'penny, or the production values aren't going to be so high.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately

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