A biography for Kevin Whatelyhasn’t been written yet.
“You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.”
“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.”
“I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.”
“You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.”
“I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.”
“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!”
“Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.”
“You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.”
“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.”
“I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.”
“I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.”
“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.”
“I don't see why it gives people the right to know about my private life if I don't want to talk about it.”
“It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks.”
“Let's just say I've never relied on my looks to make a living.”
“McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.”
“I'm not very relaxed; I always need to be doing something.”
“While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.”
“I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.”
“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.”