Toby Jones Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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 in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.”

“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 things.”