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 mem…

- 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

I'm very good at being out of work.

- 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 …

- Kevin Whately

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

- Kevin Whately

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

- Kevin Whately

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

- Kevin Whately

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.

- Kevin Whately

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.

- Kevin Whately