I know I work quite hard at making people like me.
I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
I was always insecure about the way I looked.
I'm not always fat, but when I'm thin, people don't seem to notice. I'm seen as a fat person no matter what shape I'm in.
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
If I feel that I've gone down the path of nice-blokeship, I quite like to remind myself, and others, that I actually can be a bit of an arsehole.
If it's going well, and even if it's not, you know, it's a really interesting working environment. Because you usually have a lot of fun.
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
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.
Just trying to get it to feel like it's not acting is very important to me. Sometimes I think, in a split second, 'Yes, I really know how to do this,' and I can see all the fall-out of it being a success. And then, in the process of doing it, it's just an exercise in major arse-twitching.
On his battle with leukemia: "I didn't know what made me ill but stress had something to do with it and the point is now to head off stress at the pass. It made me aware of things and become more selective. I am less worried about employment. I really do my homework so I am not getting stressed on the set because I don't know what I'm doing."
Was named an Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on New Year's Eve, 1999
He was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1996 but is now recovered.
Three children: Pascale (born 1976), Rafe Spall (born 1983) and Mercedes (born 1985).
He and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) co-star Gary Oldman have both played the character of Rosencrantz: Oldman in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) and Spall in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).
Became an Associate Member of RADA.
Although he does not appear in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), a picture of him can be seen as a member of the original order.
Has played a rat in two movies. He provided the voice of Nick the rat in Chicken Run (2000) and as Ron Weasley's rat Scabbers in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
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