Bryan Cranston famous quotes

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Long #Focus #Attention

I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Ideas #Let It Go #Suggestions

It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Drinking #Yoga #Sweat

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Stars #Mean #Expectations

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

#Laughing #Facts #Comedy

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

#Character #Decision #Pressure

Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Couple #Gay #Joy

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

#Falling In Love #Passion #Risk

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Reading #Thinking #Play

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Chance #Be Good #Wells

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Order #Games #People

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

#Directors #Actors

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Awards #Light #Dust

It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Successful #Persistence #Careers

Pot always just made me sleepy.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Weed #Sleepy #Pot

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Might #Emotion #Roller Coaster

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Kids #Television #World

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Numbers #Marketing #Elements

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Perseverance #Art #Successful

I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Thinking #Agency #Wish

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

#Thinking #Why Not

I look like everyone.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Looks

I intend to do more directing TV.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Tvs

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

#Player #Actors #Periods

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

#Work #Play #Worry

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

#Actors #Able #Materials

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

#Appreciate #Roles #Actors

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Country #Thinking #Political

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

#Action #Shock #Wells

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Sleep #Relax

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Support #Lovely #Support Me

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Thinking #Needs #Actors

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.'
-- Bryan Cranston

#Character #Tv Shows #People

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

#Empowering #Acting

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

#Actors

My dear friend Aaron Paul, I love you so much.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Love You #Dear Friend #I Love You So Much

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Mean #Thinking #Dollars

Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Kings #Supportive #Hollywood

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

#Sake #Boring

Actors are inherently self-centered.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Self #Actors #Self Centered

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
-- Bryan Cranston

#People #Comedy #Assuming

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Winter #Ice #Heat

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Husband #Father #Want

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

#Country #Ignorance #Self

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Winning #People #Want

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

#Falling In Love #Two #Adults

I have some anger issues.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Issues

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

#Cancer #Thinking #Age

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Selfish #Nice #Squash

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

#Defense #Littles #Craziness

Money has never been my primary goal.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Goal

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Rights #Civil Rights #Kind

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

#Hopeful #Projects #Critics

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

#Why Not #Given #Dangerous

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Law #People #Laws Of Nature

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Men #Hair #Interesting

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.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Boys #People #Complaining

I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Believe #Past #Thinking

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

#Needs #Bricks #Tvs

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!
-- Bryan Cranston

#Pigs #Trying #Actors

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

#Watches #Want #Determine

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

#Voice #People

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

#Imagination #Actors #Draws

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Mixing

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

#Actors

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

#Men #Shoes #Mind

I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'
-- Bryan Cranston

#Men #Mad #Fans

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

#Talking #Years #Craziness

I don't have spare time.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Spare Time

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

#Love Is #Appreciate #Healthy