Bryan Cranston Quotes
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There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.
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I don't have spare time.
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Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
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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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In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.
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The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
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Our whole society is instantaneous.
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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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The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
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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 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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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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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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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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I intend to do more directing TV.
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Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
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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 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.
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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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Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
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Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
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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.