- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember Tom Baker once said to me many years ago: never go back, particularly with TV shows. This is because the track record for characters returning to series they've left is not very good.
- Fairway
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were on a fairway shooting a scene in 'The Dogleg Murders' when I was asked by the cameraman if it was safe to film from where he was standing. I said, 'Yes, it'll be fine.' I then managed to slice the ball 90 degrees into the camera.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just written a book on the occupation of the Channel Islands, which is being published in Germany. Pursuing the Second World War is my passion because it's the most extraordinary period in history.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done so much drama on television that it's very hard to sit down and watch other actors work. I find my interest is more in the real world.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so good to get up in the morning and see a donkey - they're just unbelievably beautiful and funny. My donkey Hector laughs when I walk towards him; he knows mortality when he sees it.
- Celebrity Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture that exists now didn't exist in the 1980s.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why 'Midsomer Murders' is so popular; I've asked this many times and I've asked the Germans particularly because I've become very fond of them, to be honest. And they say it's the irony, the sense of humour and so on.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, dear old 'Bergerac', or dear young 'Bergerac' as he was then, he had a gammy leg, he was going through a nasty divorce with his wife, he was a recovering alcoholic, it's a wonder he can get up in the morning let alone solve any crimes. And he also had to drive that ridiculous car.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Midsomer Murders' is more about character and atmosphere. It portrays a kind of idealised rural England, just as the French like to imagine it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take vicars; there are often village vicars in 'Midsomer Murders', but the village vicar in England was killed off long ago.
- Cornwall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole of Cornwall has become antiseptic. When I was growing up in St. Austell, the county was wonderfully rough and workish. These days it is polite and Disney-fied.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm flattered to be called a sex symbol and, on occasion - if I've had a nice bottle of Beaujolais - I can imagine myself really being one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020