Paul Whitehouse
Actor
1958-05-17
Quotes by Paul Whitehouse
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I do a lot of heart rehab exercise, and cardio as well. I do some specialist stuff and then some bog-standard 'bike to nowhere,' as I call it.
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It's hunting, but unlike shooting, which is noisy and intrusive, fishing is all about quietness and stealth.
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Stealth is important when you're fishing.
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My disappointment with Christmas stems from my abject horror at losing the magic of Christmas when I was young. That's where it comes from. Because I'll never capture that Christmas joy and excitement again.
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There's nothing better than going down the lawn to the river for a few hours in the evening and catching your own supper.
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There's more to fishing than catching fish. It's being lost in a timeless world, away from all the chaos outside, doing something that's elemental.
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I don't want to sound trite, but we're all treading a fine line between what's normal and what's not.
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Nurse' couldn't be construed as laughing at the characters. You can't do something about mental illness without being genuine about the characters. Given the nature of the material, you can't fake it. That would be trite and wrong.
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My mum and dad were full-on proles, from the Rhondda Valley, who love opera. I've got quite a bit of opera, and I listen to it occasionally, but not like them.
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I embarrass my family, singing all the time. Anything from opera to punk, via a bit of metal and soul. A very catholic taste.
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I do look like a walnut sometimes.
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Obviously, you lose sight of certain things as you get older. In some cases; for example, youth culture.
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