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29 quotes by Tobin Bell

Tobin Bell (born Joseph Henry Tobin, Jr.; August 7, 1942) is an American film and television character actor, known for his portrayal of John Kramer/Jigsaw of the Saw film series. After years of work doing stand-ins and background work on films, he got his first major acting job in Mississippi Burning (1988) and went on to star in made-for-television films and guest star in television shows throughout the 1990s. A life member of The Actors...
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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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