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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.
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Toby Jones
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 7
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Toby Edward Heslewood Jones
Tobias Edward Heslewood Jones
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I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.
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Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.
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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.
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They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
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I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.
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All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.
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There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.
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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.
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It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.
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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.
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It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.
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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.
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I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.
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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.
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I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.
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The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'
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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.
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We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.
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One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.
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