Bryan Cranston Quotes
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The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
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When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
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I intend to do more directing TV.
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My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
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There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.
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When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.
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It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
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I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.
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I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.
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What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.
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What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
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I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.
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Our whole society is instantaneous.
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Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
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If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.
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My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
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Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
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Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
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If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.
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When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.
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Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
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With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.
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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.