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.

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

She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.