Rafe Spall

Actor

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!'

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