Bryan Cranston Quotes

1. “I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t.”

— Bryan Cranston

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2. “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

3. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

4. “I think it’s not a question of why, more a question of why not.”

— Bryan Cranston

5. “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

6. “I don’t have spare time.”

— Bryan Cranston

7. “There’s boldness in being assertive; there’s strength and confidence.”

— Bryan Cranston

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “That’s the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.”

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13. “The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.”

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14. “My dear friend Aaron Paul, I love you so much.”

— Bryan Cranston

15. “It’s mind-altering when you slip into someone else’s shoes. That’s psychedelic, man.”

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16. “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

17. “I have some anger issues.”

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18. “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

19. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

20. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

21. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

22. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

23. “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

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

— Bryan Cranston

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

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26. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

30. “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

31. “To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.”

— Bryan Cranston

32. “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

33. “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.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Mixing humor and politics is something that works.”

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36. “Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don’t want to watch.”

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

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38. “I’m a big fan of ‘Mad Men.’”

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39. “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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40. “Actors are inherently self-centered.”

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41. “Every experience feeds an actor, and I’ve learned that depression is all around us.”

— Bryan Cranston

42. “I don’t really relax. When I sleep, I relax.”

— Bryan Cranston

43. “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

44. “Money has never been my primary goal.”

— Bryan Cranston

45. “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.”

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46. “With craziness, you can’t predict it. There’s very little defense you can have on craziness.”

— Bryan Cranston

47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “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

50. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston