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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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.