Bryan Cranston Quotes
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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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Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
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I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.
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I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
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Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
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There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.
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You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
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I look like everyone.
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Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.
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I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.
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I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.
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Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
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This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
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We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.
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Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
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There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.
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When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.
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You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.
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I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.
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What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.
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If you like vanilla, you're not going to like 'Breaking Bad' - you need to like a specific flavor that is unusual, that is different, that takes risks.
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I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.
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Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.
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People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.