Bryan Cranston Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

I have some anger issues.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

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.

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

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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