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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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Toby Jones is a versatile British actor born on September 7, 1966. He has made a name for himself in film, television, and theater with his exceptional acting skills and diverse roles. more

“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.”

People Thinking Persons Real Character Problem Bigs Actors Common Mystery Training Treats Discovering Never Quit Factual Fictional Character

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“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.”

Ifs Different Character Happens Would Be Asks Voice My Own Coffee Ridiculous Gossip Dip

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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.”

Way Speak Sentences Hitchcock

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“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.”

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“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.”

Feels Trying I Can Important Sometimes Marketing Publicity Love Making

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“We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.”

People Actors Blessed Harry Potter Grounded Potters

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“Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.”

Hard Attention Amount Relate Midst Grounded Jennifer

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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.”

Seems Lasts Film Last Time Grounded Jennifer Josh

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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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“We are not putting ground troops into Iraq ever again. And we're not putting ground troops into Syria. We're going to defeat ISIS without committing American ground troops.”

Defeat Iraq Troops Syria Isis

Author:Hillary Clinton

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