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..

In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some semblance of logic I think as an ….

I watched what I ate for a bit and did a bit of exercise. I wanted to look alright because I knew I had to take my clothes off and I knew I was starr….

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 S….

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 ….

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

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 y….

I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do school plays and the reason you go ….

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….

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

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..

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..

You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 9….

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 some….

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 som….

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 ….

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..

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

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 aroun….

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

I was nervous about playing a lead part in a Working Title romantic comedy and I was also nervous about the fact that I not only had to take my cloth….