Toby Jones Quotes

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• You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.
• All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.
• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
• I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.
• 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.
• 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…
• I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.
• I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.
• 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…
• If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.
• It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.
• It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.
• Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.
• 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…
• But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of…
• Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working…
• Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting…
• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its…
• I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal…
• I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy,…

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