Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
I`ve been fascinated by deep sea diving since watching `Jacques Cousteau``s TV programmes as a lad.
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Perhaps being a character actor on radio was, in retrospect, the best training I could get.
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I`ve done my fair share of waiting on tables in restaurants, cleaning cars, whatever. I was even an electrician at one time, and I`ve done my fair bit of decorating, too. But slowly my fortunes changed.
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I`m getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn`t matter how well you`re looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you`re away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you`re a stranger, the kid cries and the wife`s stuck to your face!
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Marriage is like throwing yourself into a river when you only wanted a drink of water.
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When you get kids helping kids, it`s really a heartwarming story.
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Everybody can watch the two characters-well, not just the two characters but the whole show-and know that everybody`s a ruddy fool! We`re just there to entertain people and it works. It`s great-and we need a bit more of that in this day and age, don`t we?
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It was a long time before TV wanted me - I would have had to commit murder to get a part on the box at one time.
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Working with Ronnie was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career. The world of entertainment has lost a huge talent.
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I`ve never ever `felt my age`, whatever that means. I think that there are a lot of people who feel 22 when in fact they`re 62, and there are a lot of youngsters out there who behave as if they were four times their age. It`s an attitude of mind, isn`t it?
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Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)
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Trivia
Worked as a self-employed electrician before becoming an actor, initially in the theatre and later moving to television.
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Brother of actor Arthur White.
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He was considered for the role of Corporal Jones in the BBC series "Dad's Army" (1968), which eventually went to Clive Dunn.
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Received two awards at the British Television Awards. He got the awards for "Britain's Best Actor" and "Britain's Best Comedy Actor".
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He once described marriage as "like throwing yourself into a river when you only wanted a drink of water".
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Knighted in the Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours. He collected the award from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 1 December 2005, having secretly married his long-term partner Gill Hinchcliffe at the Dorchester Hotel in London the day before. [2005]
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Became a father for the first time at age 61, when his partner of 4 years, Gill Hinchcliffe (41) gave birth to a daughter, Sophie Mae. [26 February 2001]
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Did not find out until age 14 that he had a twin brother who had died at birth.
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After discovering that there was already a David White registered with Equity, he took his stage surname from the first name of his twin brother Jason who had died in infancy.
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He was awarded an O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of British Empire) for his services to drama.
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