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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind. "

" 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!' "

" Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it. "

" Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history. "

" By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them. "

" 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'. "

" 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. "

" It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. "

" 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. "

" For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about. "

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

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

" 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. "

" One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind. "