Bryan Cranston Quotes

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What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set u

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At my age, I don’t think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.
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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.
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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.
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Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
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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.
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When I was a kid there were a very select few channelsprogrammes 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.
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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.
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Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
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I’m a big fan of ‘Mad Men.’
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Part of an actor’s job is to draw up a back story.
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I don’t have spare time.
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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.
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I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There’s a craziness to them.
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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.’
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If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
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Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.
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This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
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Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don’t want to watch.
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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.
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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.
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I intend to do more directing TV.
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I don’t really relax. When I sleep, I relax.
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I’m pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.
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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.
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It’s mind-altering when you slip into someone else’s shoes. That’s psychedelic, man.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.
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I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it’s just easier.
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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!
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The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
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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.
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