Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met. It doesn’t happen every day to witness perfection on Earth.

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves." - Bob Proctor

You are mine my precious.

Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.