Tony Todd

Duane Jones is a personal hero of mine.

— Tony Todd

Thank God for voiceover work.

— Tony Todd

Sunset Boulevard' is my favorite film.

— Tony Todd

I was a 'Trekkie' growing up.

— Tony Todd

I wish I could do a black and white film.

— Tony Todd

My love is the theater.

— Tony Todd

I'm ready to go up to the Danny Glover level.

— Tony Todd

I like critical failures. It makes you work harder.

— Tony Todd

I can't speak to what makes people think that I'm scary.

— Tony Todd

I collect Gottlieb games, and I play classic pinball.

— Tony Todd

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

— Tony Todd

I almost did 'Doctor Strange.' I went in to do a session to play Dormammu.

— Tony Todd

But the people who give me the best reality check are my children.

— Tony Todd

I think we all agreed to take a bunch of Xanax at some point.

— Tony Todd

I don't want you leaving laughing, I want to leave you shaking. That to me is true horror.

— Tony Todd

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.

— Tony Todd

So I grew up watching film noir, you know the classic stuff. William Holden, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, all those.

— Tony Todd

When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to…

— Tony Todd

Working on 'Candyman' in Chicago was probably the - I absolutely love this city, this city is so funky.

— Tony Todd

Yes, I would like to be involved in something that would hopefully be a blockbuster, but I'm interested in seeing new filmmakers…

— Tony Todd

Actors are a funny lot. Sometimes they're not satisfied with where they are. I include myself.

— Tony Todd

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

— Tony Todd

I grew up on video games. When I was in college, even during snowstorms, I would go the half-mile to the drugstore…

— Tony Todd

When I was a young kid, almost every other show on television was a Western. And some of them were part of…

— Tony Todd

When Michael Bay called me, I'd worked with him before on 'The Rock,' and he called me and said, 'Tony, I might…

— Tony Todd

The work I did with Artists Collective led me to a scholarship at Uconn... It led to me getting a scholarship at…

— Tony Todd

I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in…

— Tony Todd

People who come through television, if they don't get distracted, they learn how to shoot fast. They don't get shocked. And if…

— Tony Todd

True story - When 'Candyman' first came out, my daughter and I were Christmas shopping, and people were harassing us. Finally my…

— Tony Todd

I remember my first professional paycheck. I couldn't keep it as a memento because I needed the money, but I have kept…

— Tony Todd

I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called 'The Last Elephant,' with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I…

— Tony Todd

But my career's so much deeper than just horror.

— Tony Todd

It's like going back home... It really is a family on '24.'

— Tony Todd

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

— Tony Todd

Whenever I can make it work out, and schedule permitting, I like to help young filmmakers.

— Tony Todd

I only do television if it's something really good like '24.'

— Tony Todd

My first assignment was a curtain-puller for 'The Curious Savage.'

— Tony Todd

I hustled my way through college playing pinball.

— Tony Todd

In my mind, I'm not scary at all. I'm channeling my inner Cary Grant!

— Tony Todd

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.

— Tony Todd