Quotes by Toby Jones

Toby Jones

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

Actors

May

Red

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.

Coffee

Couple

Men

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 being an actor.

Children

Running

Thinking

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 for two months. I’m used to that dynamic.

Father

Six Months

Two

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 is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?

Beautiful

Light

Voice

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

Bob

Flu

Years

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

Character

Feels

Proud

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.

Different

Humans

People

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.

Cinema

Darkness

Giants

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

Book

Children

Reading

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Amazing Woman

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Beautiful

Believe

Bob

Book

Calm

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Children

Choices

Cinema

Coffee

Couple

Darkness

Design

Different

Directors

Drama

Dream

Drinking

Drs

Elements

Enough

Events

Fans

Father

Feels

Film

Fire

Flu

Four

Giants

Girl

Giving

Home

Hours

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Interesting

Jobs

Josh

Keys

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Quotes by Toby Jones

Toby Jones

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

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 being an actor.

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 for two months. I’m used to that dynamic.

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 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.

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.

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

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