95 Quotes by Toby Jones

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 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.

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.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.