95 Quotes by Toby Jones

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

You can’t deny reality just because you can’t explain it.

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