Top 25 Jonathan Banks Quotes

That first episode of ‘Newsroom,’ the way it just cooked, I thought it was really good.

I’ve played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I’ve done a lot of comedy.

It’s not that I don’t enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Saul’ unfold like novels.

If you had ever told me that the finest film work was going to be done on television, I wouldn’t have believed it.

When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I’m not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

I’ve got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there’s still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I’m not a high-energy guy.

‘Homeland’ is great.

From the time I could visually perceive film or TV, I was just enthralled by it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

I like my wife. I’m stupid in love with my wife and always have been.

I say this to young actors: You don’t get into this because you think you’re average. You get into this because you think, ‘I’m good.’ It’s an art form, and I’m an artist. But as an artist, you know there’s not a soul in the world that’s going to believe in you other than yourself.

I do always get cast in these world-weary parts.

I was a janitor when I was 16, cleaning out garbage rooms in Washington, D.C., and they were foul. It gets really hot in D.C. in the summertime, and you then take on the essence of garbage. People would stand away from me on the sidewalk as I came toward them.

Ed O’Neill is just a good, good human being.

We’ve all been the brunt of jokes at times.

I think I’ve been cast as toughs as far as I can remember always, always.

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn’t have believed it. There’s great stuff out there.

I honestly do feel – and I hope I don’t gag anybody if they read this – but I feel like I’m one of the luckiest people in the world.

Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That’s the only thing I have control over.

If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I’ll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

The funniest guy I’ve ever worked with – it’s just one of those things, again, where we look at each other and just laugh – is Jimmy Byrnes from ‘Wiseguy.’ Jimmy – we can’t be in the same room together. He knows he can make me laugh just by looking at me.

It really bothers me that Stephen Cannell has died. I had lunch with him about eight months before he died, and… I really liked him. I really did.

‘Wiseguy’ for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

I probably carry a fair amount of sarcasm in my daily life.