W. J. Bryan Quotes

People speculated that signing Raja was an insurance policy. That is not the case. We signed Raja Bell because we thought we were greatly improving our team, the makeup of the organization.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

A talking computor with an attitude problem? Haven't I seen that in a dozen b-grade sci-fi flicks?" "Where do you think I got the idea?

Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?

No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton