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 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'.

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.

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

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

What is yours will be yours without any fight.

Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

True Yankees are born, not made.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Why did the reindeer wear black boots? Because his brown ones were all muddy!