“There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.” PeopleTryingEyeActingTalkingHeardScreensCinemaGrantsMiraculousRegister Author: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.” PeopleMeanRealCharacterReal Character Author:Toby Jones
“When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.” PeopleFeelsWellsKindJobsFeltVoiceActingResponsibilitySeriousScalesGuiltyHarry PotterOld PeoplePottersAwestruckDobby Author:Toby Jones
“I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.” PeopleKnowsHumansPersonsDifferentMy Own Author:Toby Jones
“We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.” PeopleKindStillsActorsStuffEventsVersionsFascinatedAmazedVariationPersonaRambling Author:Toby Jones
“I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.” PeopleIfsLooksRealCharacterHappensBeing Real Author:Toby Jones
“When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.” PeopleThinkingPersonsRealCharacterProblemBigsActorsCommonMysteryTrainingTreatsDiscoveringNever QuitFactualFictional Character Author:Toby Jones
“Somewhere the glamour has gone because of the industrialization of this whole process. I wish it [filming] felt as magical and glamorous as people want it to be, but it feels like a routine people are going through.” PeopleWantFeelsWholeWishFeltProcessGoneRoutineGlamourGlamorousIndustrialization Author:Toby Jones
“We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.” PeopleActorsBlessedHarry PotterGroundedPotters Author:Toby Jones
“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.” PeopleThinkingMenYearsLastsSpeakVoiceCoupleSceneDown AndCoffeeCupsToneShyOfferingLast YearCoffee CupBarcelonaDe NiroBest Ever Author:Toby Jones
