Toby Jones Quotes

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• When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

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  Jobs, Meals, Drs

  "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

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  Truth, Reality, Deny

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• It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

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  Different, Strange, Happens

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

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  People, Different, Humans

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

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  Thinking, Lines, Littles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There’s no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

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  Philosophy, Play, Trying

  "Toby Jones On Choosing Roles, Avoiding Hollywood and the Crisis of Global Politics". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.

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  Couple, Coffee, Men

  "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• What happens is some of the characters I've played have voices that are so different from my own, that it would be ridiculous if I would dip in and out of that voice in between takes to ask for a coffee, or something. Or to gossip about whatever was going on.

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  Coffee, Character, Voice

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

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  Children, Book, Reading

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

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  Voice, Shapes, Hard

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.

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  Trying, World, Plenty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

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  Way, Speak, Sentences

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

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  Real, Character, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.

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  Men, Design, Directors

  "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

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  Men, Fans, Calm

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.

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  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

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  Dream, Thinking, Giving

  "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.

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  Drinking, Moving, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

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  Real, Character, People

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

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  Needs, Reassuring, Enough

  "Toby Jones Talks the ‘Twisted Love Story’ of ‘The Girl’ and Finding Hitchcock Under Four Hours of Prosthetics". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.

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  Artist, Interesting, Actors

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

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  Keys, Shadow, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

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  Independent, Imagination, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.

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  Jobs, Responsibility, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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