Biografia

On the set of the Criminal Minds episode Blood Relations (2014), Oberst stayed off the communications grid entirely; remaining in solitude, character and wardrobe whether shooting or not.

Sara Karloff inscribed a photo of her father Boris Karloff to Oberst with the phrase "Bill, that's NOT a scary face!" after meeting the actor and finding him to be "just like my father; not at all scary up close.".

For his 2007 audition for the role of Adolf Eichmann in the World War II drama, The Glass House, Bill borrowed a reproduction Nazi SS uniform, jackboots and an antique German Iron Cross from a museum curator. As he walked from his car to the audition in downtown Los Angeles, he was spat on by passers-by and verbally assailed from passing cars for 3 blocks.

The facial scarring that gives Bill his menacing look is largely a result of a childhood bicycle accident which necessitated reconstructive surgery.

Came to Sherman's March (2007) audition in full make-up and wearing an authentic uniform (including sword and pistol) borrowed from a Civil War reenactor.

I asked an old preacher once how he got his call to the ministry. He said, 'Preaching came to me and I ran. But it caught me, so I preach.' I think acting is the same way. I always tell kids when I visit schools that I believe God gives us all a vocation, the thing we are put here on earth to do. The trick is to make your vocation your occupation, if you can.

My sympathies have always been with the monster.

Jesus is the most durable and resilient figure in history. Had he not existed, I doubt we would have had the guts to imagine him.

My personal theory is that fear of death accounts for most of the real horror in the world; the cruelty, the coldness of heart, the emptiness of celebrity culture.

An actor will end up with a bleeding heart if they're worth a damn. Being so many others leads one to the realization that there is no "other," only us in potentiality, for better or worse.