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 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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• I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

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  Darkness, Giants, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You come in as this satellite part of the film [Catching Fire], so I only see Stanley [Tucci] in my scenes. These kinds of movies have so many different components; it's about as different from doing The Girl as you could imagine.

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  Girl, Fire, Different

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• 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.

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  Believe, Age, Amazing Woman

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

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• It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

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  Cities, Culture, London

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

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• Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."

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  Jobs, Scripts, Wells

  "INTERVIEW 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 love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

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  Marketing, Important, Trying

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 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 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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• You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

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  Important, Suspicion, Premieres

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

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• Somewhere the glamour has gone because of the industrialization of this whole process. I wish it [filming] felt as magical and glamorous as people want it to be, but it feels like a routine people are going through.

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  People, Wish, Industrialization

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

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• All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

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  Actors, May, Red

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

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  Years, Bob, Flu

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

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  Character, Proud, Feels

  "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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• 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 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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