Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Tobias Menzies

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Tobias Menzies.

Last updated on November 15, 2024.

Tobias Simpson Menzies is an English stage, television and film actor. He is best known for playing Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the third and fourth seasons of Netflix's series The Crown, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and British Academy Television Award nominations. Menzies also played Frank and Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in STARZ's Outlander, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, in addition to his roles as Brutus in HBO's Rome and Edmure Tully in HBO's Game of Thrones.

English - Actor | Born: March 7, 1974

Source: Wikipedia

The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.

Tobias Menzies

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

Tobias Menzies

I love little theatres because it's very intimate, and you can have a very easy rapport with the audience. Everyone's in the same room.

Tobias Menzies

I'm not sure I had the legs for togas.

Tobias Menzies

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Tobias Menzies

I like what I do, and a lot of these projects have really interesting material and interesting people to work with. I feel lucky.

Tobias Menzies

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

Tobias Menzies

I quite like sort of being able to walk down the street with no one noticing.

Tobias Menzies

In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.

Tobias Menzies

Love is a very big word.

Tobias Menzies

I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.

Tobias Menzies

I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Tobias Menzies

'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are always going to be offended by it.

Tobias Menzies

I live or die by how well I act.

Tobias Menzies

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

Tobias Menzies

I really enjoy the darker side of things. It's the type of work that I like to watch. I know some actors feel fearful of how they'll be viewed. But invariably, I find dark material can be very, very rewarding to inhabit and investigate.

Tobias Menzies

Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Tobias Menzies

Related Authors