Quotes by Tobin Bell - Page 1

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Alive
Buried
Littles
Scary
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I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Westerns
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Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Fun
Halloween
Holiday
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Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Thanksgiving
Halloween
Holiday
Favorite
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It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Journey
Carve
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There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Crafts
Play
Saws
Scripts
Considerations
Craft
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'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.'
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Saws
Six
Years
Wanna
Playground
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Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Carpet
Children
Firsts
Littles
Significance
Crawl
Suffered
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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 / Film Actor
Details
Fans
Waiting
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There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Get Up
Moments
Saws
Shocking
Expects
Floor
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Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Artist
Fair Game
Games
Palette
Point Of View
Views
Exists
Portray
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I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Answers
Eight
Four
Incomplete
Work Enough Always
Work Will Always
Raise
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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 / Film Actor
Acting
Airplane
Skins
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Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Fans
Passionate
People
Play
Producers
People Sometimes Way
Carefully
Writers
Plays
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Saw is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... Thats the way Saw plays out.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Finding Yourself
Jigsaw Puzzles
Play
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Saw has been a unique experience in that Ive had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Opportunity
Artist
Unique
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'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Crew
Different Ways
Work Experience Great
Departments
So Many Different Ways
Unique Experience
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'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... That's the way 'Saw' plays out.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Bottom
Jigsaw
Corner
Jigsaw Puzzle
Puzzle
Upper
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Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Effects
Mind
Special
Special Effects
Track
Departments
Minds
Tracks
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If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Expressionism
Jazz
Paint
Play
Rocks
Want
Life Change Your
Life Change Start
All Your Life
Blues
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One of the interesting things about 'Saw' is that you don't find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don't forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Details
Interesting
Interesting Things
Linear
Order
Stories
Reveal
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All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Baseball
Best Work
Player
Reality
Hole
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An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Believable
Firsts
Hands
Responsibility
Smallest
Puts
Reads
Screen
Sees
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I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Jobs
Character
Humanity
People
Scary
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I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Art
Aspect
Fascinated
Good Story
Splendid
Successful
Together
Participate
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One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Character
Illogical
Sculpture
Trying
Way
Character Way Doing
Connect
Continuous
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I'm always amazed... I took my 11-year-old to an oceanography camp, and these girls came over to me, and my son was like 'Oh here we go, Dad,' because they had been looking. They were like, 'You're the guy, aren't you?' And I said, 'Well, maybe.' They said, 'He is, he's the guy on 'Charmed!'
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Amazed
Charmed
Son
Dad Always Me
Oh
Camp
Took
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I'm always amazed... I took my 11-year-old to an oceanography camp, and these girls came over to me, and my son was like 'Oh here we go, Dad,' because they had been looking. They were like, 'You're the guy, aren't you?' And I said, 'Well, maybe.' They said, 'He is, he's the guy on 'Charmed!''
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Girl
Dad
Son
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You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Bad Guys
Character
Different Kinds
Interesting Characters
Mice
Plans
Powerful
Strong
Good Men Me
Good Guys
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In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
New York
Cameras
Names
Roles
Scorsese
Seventies
Thirty
Woody
Work Movies Doing
Allen
Background
Eighties
Woody Allen
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'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Interesting
People
Ripple
Significant
Thinking
World People Doing
World People Way
Affects
Respond
Effect
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I've worked with multiple directors throughout the 'Saw' series with a lot of conversations as they bring their particular installment to the screen. If I've been able to do anything throughout the course of these films, it's been to help shape dialogue and to try to make things as delicate and as intelligent as I can.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Delicate
Dialogue
Intelligent
Multiple
Shapes
Trying
Conversations
Installment
Screen
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Im an actor. The fact that Im involved in Jigsaw, I dont approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in The Firm or FBI Agent Stokes in Mississippi Burning. Its the same deal. Its just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, How does it feel to be a horror icon? Im thrilled. Its great.
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Fbi Agents
Icons
People
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One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Ashley
Lines
People
Peter
Roles
Svengali
Waiter
Work Done People
Elizabeth
Work People Done
Mechanics
Speaking
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What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Calm
Energy
Horrible
Interesting
Volatility
Way
Cooperative
Great Movie
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I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great.
Tobin Bell / Film Actor
Approach
Burning
Fbi
Firm
Horror
Involved
Jigsaw
Mississippi
Ask
Great Me People
Actor
Agent
Deal
Effect
Fact
Icon
Thrilled
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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 / Film Actor
Technology
Coffee
Worry
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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 / Film Actor
Couple
People
Thinking
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