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

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.

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.

The Maker is mighty in strength.

No one tells me what to do -- in any capacity.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

When my hair is dyed, I feel like I'm 35 again.

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.