Bryan Cranston Quotes

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!

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

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

I intend to do more directing TV.

I look like everyone else.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

Pot always just made me sleepy.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

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

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.

I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."

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.

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

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

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

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.

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

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

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.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

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.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

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

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

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

The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.

Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.

Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.