Toby Jones Quotes

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

Casting is storytelling.

I never played an ingenue.

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.

I am an actor, and actors should be willing to play all kind of roles.

As an actor, I'd rather turn into Joffrey.

I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.

I auditioned for Roosevelt in 'The Winds of War,' but Ralph Bellamy got the role.

I work according to the kind of character they want me to play.