Kevin Whately Quotes

On my last two days of 'Young and the Restless,' I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.

My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.

Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

The mind is just another muscle.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.