Bryan Cranston Quotes - Page 4

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.

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.

Pot always just made me sleepy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Actors are inherently self-centered.

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.

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

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

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

I look like everyone else.

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.

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

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

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

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