34 Quotes by Rafe Spall

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.

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

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

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.

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

I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.

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'.

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.

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.