Toby Jones Quotes

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

There are a million roles I haven't played yet that I would love to play!

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.

I feel really fortunate that I've been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don't want to play the same thing over and over again.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

It's my dream career to do as many different things as possible and for as long as possible, to stretch myself in as many different directions as I can.

I just wanted to get out there and do different roles and try new things.

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

I have quite a lot of character types that I want to play, so taking on various genres and roles is what I intend to do, if I can.

I want to get to experience all kinds of roles.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

I want to do different roles.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.