Top 44 Bryan Cranston Quotes

Part of an actor’s job is to draw up a back story.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

I have some anger issues.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t have spare time.

I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There’s a craziness to them.

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.

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.

Every time you start a project, you’re hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

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.

What’s great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that’s the best.

Money has never been my primary goal.

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.

With craziness, you can’t predict it. There’s very little defense you can have on craziness.

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.

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.

Danger is cool.

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.

If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.

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.

Something’s happened in our society which I don’t think is beneficial, and that’s that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station – I’ve been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

I don’t really relax. When I sleep, I relax.

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.

I look like everyone.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

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.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don’t want to watch.

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!

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

At my age, I don’t think anyone is untouched by cancer.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it’s great.

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.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

I intend to do more directing TV.