Latest Tobin Bell Quotes from Interviews

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• The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

  Tobin Bell

  Airplane, Skins, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• No matter what kind of significance leads you do, you learn a lot from doing schlock. The setup's the same, only you have to work twice as hard to make it the best as you can make it. And a lot of acting is not about acting but technology. Are you standing in your light? Are you out of your light? And if the sound guy's near you, please don't put the coffee cup down at that moment, because you're covering your lines. All of that stuff's going on in your head, so you learn a lot by doing whatever. In my view, never worry that something's not prime - A, number - one stuff.

  Tobin Bell

  Coffee, Technology, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I try to think of acting in terms of thinking and doing. People think of it as, "Oh, let's get inside this guy." They think that acting is being, or feeling, or emoting. It's as much doing. One of the first things you do as an acting student is ask, "Can you say words and do a task at the same time, like sweep a floor?" You get to watch the human condition, and there's always a "doing" aspect of it. This couple, they're carrying backpacks, where are they going? Students? Or are they carrying instruments? It stimulates the imagination. So acting is doing ... and I forget how we got off on that.

  Tobin Bell

  Couple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Saw fans are manic, when it comes to details, so they're going to say, "Wait a minute! Why is that like that? It wasn't like that before." And, they're right.

  Tobin Bell

  Waiting, Fans, Details

  "Tobin Bell and Costas Mandylor Interview SAW VI". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. October 17, 2009.