Bryan Cranston Quotes
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It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'
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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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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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It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
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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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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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I intend to do more directing TV.
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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 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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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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Our whole society is instantaneous.
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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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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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Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
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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.
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Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
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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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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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Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
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Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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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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I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.