Bryan Cranston Quotes
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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We are all terminal.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.
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I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.
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Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
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While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.
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I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.
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My goal has always been to be a working actor.
