Coby Bell

Coby Bell: Dad always said, 'Buddy, it's just a job'. I'd go to all these things and see all these celebrity-type people acting crazy and all big-headed. And he'd tell me, 'It's not the way...you should go do your job and come home. You don't need to get involved in all that craziness'.

Coby Bell: When I first booked [Third Watch], I had just started dating my girlfriend, who is now my wife. We only started dating six months before and everything was going well and I get this job. They said, we were either going to shoot in San Francisco, Miami, Seattle or New York. So we didn't know for a week where I was gonna live. Then we found out and boom, I had to move to New York...took me a while to get used to. [New York's] just go, go, go.

Coby Bell: I've always been put into the category of African American as far as Hollywood goes. I've never had a problem finding work, so I've been lucky in that sense.

Coby Bell: (About his profession on Third Watch) It's a dirty job. I mean, I couldn't do it. Me, personally, I don't think I'm brave enough to be a police officer.

Coby Bell: (About Barack Obama) He makes sense. He's logical, he's reasonable, he's intelligent, he's wise...all the things that are lacking from the current administration. He's better than anyone else who's out there. [He's] the man that I want to be the next president of the United States.

Coby Bell: (About his favorite episode from Third Watch) I think it was Season 2-the one with this guy who was riding around on a bike shooting cops. And he ends up shooting this guy that was in the Academy with Ty. There's this beautiful funeral scene at the end.

Coby Bell: (About working with Skipp Sudduth) He and became such good friends. We're still really tight. We would just make each other laugh all the time and then be real serious when the cameras were rolling. But when they yelled 'cut,' we'd start goofing around again.