- I still want to act. I just think for casting people the fact that I was in Coronation Street so long is a bit of a stumbling block. So, I've made this situation where I don't have to do it. I would still like to though - it's one of my three loves in life: art, acting and cooking.
- [On the reason why he quit Coronation Street] I didn't want to do [the storyline] and suggested they could bring in another actor, but the producer was insistent. It wasn't for me, so I told them, 'No, I will not be doing that storyline and I suggest that maybe you go and have a rethink.' They came back a couple of weeks later and said, 'No, we do feel that this storyline is going to go ahead.' So I said, 'Well that means I will be leaving the show'. Then they decided to unilaterally tell the country that I was sacked, which wasn't the case, and it was frustrating. I think with the individuals involved at the time, it wasn't surprising that it entered the playground. I don't think there will be a comeback. They sent my character to New Zealand, I think they were trying to tell me something.
- There was no major fall-out over the Katy plot, although they were thinking of a different story with a younger girl and I told them I didn't want to do that - it was a step too far for me.
- [on leaving "Coronation Street"] I don't care, I have bigger fish to fry. I've been fed up playing the same character for so long, I know I have more strings to my bow than the stereotypical soap role. What they don't realise is that when they told me they were getting rid of me, they did me a favour. My wings have been clipped, but no longer. It's not a question of maybe, I am going to try different stuff and I am going to prove to everybody that I am an actor. People have always thought Sean Wilson is Martin Platt - and that's it. Now in two or three years people will be saying, 'Jesus Christ, we didn't realise he was that good'. That's what I want people to say.
- There's lots of different reasons. There's too many channels to choose from which means there's a lot of choice. People don't have to watch it anymore. Watching Coronation Street when I was in it was a family thing, people would sit around and maybe have their food or have a cup of tea together and have a good laugh together, shed a tear or two at some of the sad moments.
- You could walk down the street on a Wednesday or a Friday and you could hear people laughing with their windows open because of the great writing and the great acting was really speaking to the nation. I don't think it does that so much nowadays.
- I think the world of soaps is a different vehicle nowadays. I think I was part of the British soap industry at the best time, the halcyon years when there was 18 or 21 million people watching it.
- During my marriage to Gail, they would have me having an affair or two, and they would last a year. The whole affair would last a year and it would always culminate around Christmas time. On Christmas Day you would find yourself being one of the main characters in the show and there would be 21 or 22 million viewers, just amazing really. You couldn't go anywhere.
- They were all segwayed together; you were five minutes from laughing and five minutes from crying. Nowadays it seems very much issue-centric, they're trying to solve the world's issues, which they're not going to do.
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