Latest Toby Jones Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Toby Jones

  Girl, Fire, Different

  Source: www.etonline.com

• Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

  Toby Jones

  Attention, Midst, Relate

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

• Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.

  Toby Jones

  Lasts, Film, Josh

  Source: www.etonline.com

• 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.

  Toby Jones

  Marketing, Important, Trying

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

• We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.

  Toby Jones

  Blessed, People, Potters

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

• 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.

  Toby Jones

  People, Wish, Industrialization

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

• 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.

  Toby Jones

  Way, Speak, Sentences

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

• 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.

  Toby Jones

  Real, Character, Thinking

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

• 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.

  Toby Jones

  Coffee, Character, Voice

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

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

  Toby Jones

  Real, Character, People

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

• I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

  Toby Jones

  Long, Four, Hours

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

• 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.

  Toby Jones

  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.

• We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.

  Toby Jones

  People, Events, Rambling

  "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.

• I'm very fortunate that I get asked to do very different kinds of roles and I realize how much I enjoy that. I enjoy the challenge of transformation. There are actors who play one character, or a certain kind of character, the whole of their lives. I really relish the opportunity to have the challenge to totally transform.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Opportunity, Play

  "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.

• There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Luck, 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.