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 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.

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.

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

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

They wanted to help me with my pain.

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.

In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live.

The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.

Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

I'm really happy to see Filipino cuisine starting to really take hold outside of the Pinoy community.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.