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.
From 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.
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.
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.
The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.
My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.
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.
You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.
I wish people would take more care of the countryside.
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