Rafe Spall famous quotes

04-17-2025

Iâ€™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 directorâ€™s door youâ€™ve still got to do your homework: youâ€™ve still got to work hard.
-- Rafe Spall

#Dad #Hard Work #Past
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

#Dad #Son #Talking
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

#Son #Doors #Casting
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

#Dad #Son #One Day
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

#Drama #School #Play
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

#Dad #Father #Responsibility
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
-- Rafe Spall

#Ambition #Kids #Big Families
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

#Lunch #Car #Theatre
Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
-- Rafe Spall

#Vanity #Unattractive #Males
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

#Trying #Actors #Fans
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

#Dad #Men #Laughing
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

#Real #Actors #Aliens
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

#Morning #Dad #Wake Up
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

#Father #Becoming #Fats
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

#Children #Stones #Fats
Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
-- Rafe Spall

#Auditions
Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats 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

#Ambition #People #Parent
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

#Children #Giving #Want

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