Bryan Cranston Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

I have some anger issues.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

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

I don't wanna have anything left in the tank.

Ever since I stopped worrying about finances, I've made more money than I ever thought I'd make in my life.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

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

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

It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

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.

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

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

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

I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'

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.

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.

I don't have spare time.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

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.

To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

My dear friend Aaron Paul. I love you so much.

There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.

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.

I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

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.

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

Money has never been my primary goal.

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.

I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

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.