Spall Quotes

#1. 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'.

Rafe Spall

#2. Now, half an hour later, adrenaline thrust him into overdrive. Storms of shale and spall burst from the ground. Ropes of sweat braided his skin. He swung again and again. The heavy pick shattered earth. Digby was in a rhythm, a digging trance, that rare state of archaeological

Shaun Morey

#3. Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton

Lou Lumenick

#4. 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.

Rafe Spall

#5. 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.

Rafe Spall

#6. 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.

Rafe Spall

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

Rafe Spall

#8. I was always insecure about the way I looked.

Timothy Spall

#9. Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

Timothy Spall

#10. 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!'

Rafe Spall

#11. 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.

Rafe Spall

#12. 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.

Rafe Spall

#13. It's an odd world.

Timothy Spall

#14. Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

Timothy Spall

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

Rafe Spall

#16. You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

Timothy Spall

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

Rafe Spall

#18. Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Timothy Spall

#19. 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.

Rafe Spall

#20. Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.

Holly Grigg-Spall

#21. There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

Timothy Spall

#22. It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.

Timothy Spall

#23. I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Timothy Spall

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

Rafe Spall

#25. I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

Timothy Spall

#26. 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.

Rafe Spall

#27. 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.

Rafe Spall

#28. I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

Timothy Spall

#29. You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?

Timothy Spall

#30. 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.

Rafe Spall

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

Rafe Spall

#32. 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.

Rafe Spall

#33. I've been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting director's door you've still got to do your homework: you've still got to work hard.

Rafe Spall

#34. 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.

Rafe Spall

#35. 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.

Rafe Spall