Toby Jones quote: "When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals."

It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have t...
TOBY JONES

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he...
TOBY JONES

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not t...
TOBY JONES

It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette ...
TOBY JONES

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early...
TOBY JONES

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might wa...
TOBY JONES

I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm ver...
TOBY JONES

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting...
TOBY JONES

There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and...
TOBY JONES

I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very ...
TOBY JONES

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, whic...
TOBY JONES

One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucia...
TOBY JONES

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're ...
TOBY JONES

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are e...
TOBY JONES

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this wor...
TOBY JONES

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.
TOBY JONES

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.
TOBY KEITH

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and...
TOBY STEPHENS

I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you shou...
TOBY EMMERICH

The Humpback Trail on New Zealand's South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over ab...
TOBY STEPHENS

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skil...
TOBY YOUNG

Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And ju...
TOBY KEITH

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
TOBY KEITH

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have t...
TOBY STEPHENS

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even i...
TOBY YOUNG

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. L...
TOBY YOUNG

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dol...
TOBY KEITH

Knowing someone isn't coming back
doesn't mean you ever stop waiting
TOBY BARLOW

Day Off is an extreme thing, but loneliness is its identical twin.
TOBY MALAQUE

I know how angry I was when I saw those towers come down, and this is my way of serving my country.
TOBY KEITH

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them ...
TOBY KEITH

MY PREVIOUS JOB is my ultimate dream, My PRESENT JOB is the absolute one.
TOBY MALAQUE

This is the next chapter in the saga of Somerset, ... We had signed a contract with Somerset for eco...
TOBY MILLER

Imax has 'The Matrix' in its format. But it is an R-rated movie and we probably wouldn't do that but...
TOBY MENSFORTH

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do i...
TOBY KEITH

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules...
TOBY YOUNG

When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it...
TOBY EMMERICH

Bathroom Break
TOBY KEITH

The size of the film is enormous. Take our space films, 'To Fly' and the others -- they are the size...
TOBY MENSFORTH

The Polar Express. It did really well over Thanksgiving and it's still doing well during the lull.
TOBY MENSFORTH

When the studio released 'Spider-Man' in Imax format, we got a huge amount of calls and people were ...
TOBY MENSFORTH

I walked a while stomping my foot and taking him for a ride. I want to continue doing this as long a...
TOBY BRITT

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me f...
TOBY STEPHENS

I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under ...
TOBY STEPHENS

We have to get her into game shape. She was on crutches last week. I wasn't sure how far I wanted to...
TOBY BICKEL

That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.
TOBY KEITH

Henry Wade did inspire a lot of young lawyers.
TOBY SHOOK

It will be hard not being here. ... It will still be just as emotional.
TOBY PYKLES

This is a scary game when a team comes in with nothing to lose and everything to gain. We've got the...
TOBY MADISON

We went from being an independent to one of the biggest and best labels in town, and in the merger w...
TOBY KEITH

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and t...
TOBY KEITH

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.
TOBY KEITH

You just try to give them a little piece of the United States, and tell them that we all support the...
TOBY KEITH

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
TOBY KEITH

We're going to be an independent, ... but smell, walk, talk, look and record like a major.
TOBY KEITH

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybo...
TOBY KEITH

I've got three or four really mainstream double-platinum kind of artists that are kind of late in th...
TOBY KEITH

This movie thing is creative. It's the most creative thing I've done in years.
TOBY KEITH

Through the years, a lot of it is just being around some great people like my dad and his friends wh...
TOBY KEITH

We can literally make a decision at noon and get started by 1 p.m..
TOBY KEITH

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail...
TOBY KEITH

I made sure the first artist I signed was Toby Keith.
TOBY KEITH

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to...
TOBY KEITH

My wife got upset, but I usually take those things, when people say stuff about me like that, and tu...
TOBY KEITH

They're just other cities. With the type of technology we have today - there's no reason for me to l...
TOBY KEITH

They're saying this isn't about lyric content, and it is. And I respect my right as an American to s...
TOBY KEITH

It was the most creative thing I've done in a decade.
TOBY KEITH

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And s...
TOBY EMMERICH

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enab...
TOBY YOUNG

When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because ...
TOBY KEBBELL

I've been on enough token interviews to know the difference, and I didn't identify that as one.
TOBY NEINAS

He has electric stuff. So far, he's been lights-out. He's got an overpowering fastball, a nasty slid...
TOBY HALL

None of the Nashville labels think I'm going to make it. But I feel very confident about my new labe...
TOBY KEITH

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge ...
TOBY STEPHENS

If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here.
TOBY EMMERICH

Obviously I liked what [Sternberg] said: They don't fail, ... You can see by the track record that t...
TOBY HALL

That pitch he struck Trot out on was the one I used to swing at.
TOBY HALL

Like go for a walk, say a little prayer
Take a deep breath of mountain air
Put on my glove...
TOBY KEITH

It's a true forkball. It's nasty.
TOBY HALL

It was a traumatic year with two hurricanes slamming our region. So it is especially gratifying to p...
TOBY HYNES

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.
TOBY KEITH

It's that dark cloud, the glass half empty on everything you do. It just becomes too much for me. So...
TOBY KEITH

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a...
TOBY KEITH

We show up way early so we can get on the front row and get the best seats possible.
TOBY PYKLES

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the t...
TOBY KEITH

Oh, and I don't want to die for youbut if dyin's asked of meI'll bear that cross with honor'cause fr...
TOBY KEITH

Our reporters made initial inquiries about the adoptions, as they did about many other aspects of hi...
TOBY USNIK

You have an assassination attempt on the president of Iraq, a president who's invaded Iran, the war ...
TOBY DODGE

Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: y...
TOBY STEPHENS

Reading is what people did before YouTube, and I love retro stuff!
TOBY TURNER

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisat...
TOBY YOUNG

'Prince of Persia' just didn't turn out to be what I thought it was going to be.
TOBY KEBBELL

It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if t...
TOBY KEITH

I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got...
TOBY KEITH

We try to buy as much American-made shirts as we can and stuff to sell. It's very difficult to c...
TOBY KEITH

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had u...
TOBY YOUNG

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.
TOBY KEITH

I couldn't watch an open fire. I would break out in tears.
TOBY BRITT

It wasn't our best day but you have to give credit to Watertown. They came out and wrestled really w...
TOBY BRYANT

President Bush's energy program won't help lower gas prices or slow global warming.
TOBY CHAUDHURI

There's a lot of pressure in qualifying and it makes it tough on athletes. I let that get to me some...
TOBY DAWSON

I might as well not go if that's not my plan. I'm planning on skiing a good run, a podium performanc...
TOBY DAWSON

Now we're able to do some things (on the ground) that we couldn't do when he was out.
TOBY GOLEMBIEWSKI

If you can keep people from scoring, you don't have to be good offensively.
TOBY HOLMES

In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what y...
TOBY MILLER

During my 17 years of employment in this building, nothing has offended me and my staff more than th...
WILLIAM TOBY JR.

Keep it out of sight.
CAPT. TOBY MCSWAIN

It flowed very well today. We haven't really seen any major backlog.
CAPT. TOBY MCSWAIN

We didn't get any major accidents that backed up traffic for miles or anything like that. We couldn'...
CAPT. TOBY MCSWAIN

Glenn has gone above and beyond what we've asked him to do as far as a volunteer.
CAPT. TOBY MCSWAIN

There's definitely some technology we could put in those areas to help us out. We have to do some be...
CAPT. TOBY MCSWAIN

It does appear we've got some more work to do.
CAPT. TOBY MCSWAIN

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ...
FELICITY JONES

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet...
QUINCY JONES

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
TAYARI JONES

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
TAYARI JONES

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the c...
TAYARI JONES

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES

I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
TAYARI JONES

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e...
TAYARI JONES

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
TAYARI JONES

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
TAYARI JONES

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe...
TAYARI JONES

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field o...
TAYARI JONES

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho...
TAMALA JONES

I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
TAMALA JONES

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
TAMALA JONES

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES

I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around b...
TAMALA JONES

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my J...
TAMALA JONES

I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES

I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out ...
TAMALA JONES

I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
TAMALA JONES

For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES

I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES

I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES

I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES

You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c...
QUINCY JONES

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES

I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES

In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES

I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES

The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES

I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES

The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES

Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES

He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES

When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

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Toby Jones

When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

Toby Jones

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