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.

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

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.

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 love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a school play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!"

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.