Rafe Spall
Rafe Spall
Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in The Shadow Line, Pete versus Life, One Day, Anonymous, Prometheus, Life of Pi and The Big Short...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 March 1983
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Theres nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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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.