Top 100 Bryan Cranston Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I intend to do more directing TV.”

— Bryan Cranston

52. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

53. “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

54. “Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.”

— Bryan Cranston

55. “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

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

— Bryan Cranston

57. “Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous – so why not show that in our programmes?”

— Bryan Cranston

58. “Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it’s drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.”

— Bryan Cranston

59. “I have a lovely family who supports me and it’s great.”

— Bryan Cranston

60. “I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That’s a good combination.”

— Bryan Cranston

61. “Every time you start a project, you’re hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.”

— Bryan Cranston

62. “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

63. “When you’re an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you’re really good at, what you’re kinda good at, what you’re okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you’re capable of, it’s just a matter of opportunity.”

— Bryan Cranston

64. “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

65. “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.”

— Bryan Cranston

66. “I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it’s just easier.”

— Bryan Cranston

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

— Bryan Cranston

68. “It’s like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It’s very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if someone gets hurt, then we didn’t do our job, someone screwed up. The fight choreographers and the actors involved, we messed up somewhere.”

— Bryan Cranston

69. “If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.”

— Bryan Cranston

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “I look like everyone.”

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74. “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

75. “I love acting because it’s empowering. It empowers me.”

— Bryan Cranston

76. “Pot always just made me sleepy.”

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77. “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

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

— Bryan Cranston

79. “Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We’ll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.”

— Bryan Cranston

80. “There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.”

— Bryan Cranston

81. “My goal has always been to be a working actor.”

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82. “At my age, I don’t think anyone is untouched by cancer.”

— Bryan Cranston

83. “I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.”

— Bryan Cranston

84. “I’m pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.”

— Bryan Cranston

85. “Part of an actor’s job is to draw up a back story.”

— Bryan Cranston

86. “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

87. “The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the material.”

— Bryan Cranston

88. “It’s up to the actor to make sure they don’t get typecast.”

— Bryan Cranston

89. “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

90. “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

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

— Bryan Cranston

92. “What’s great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that’s the best.”

— Bryan Cranston

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

— Bryan Cranston

94. “Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.”

— Bryan Cranston

95. “Something’s happened in our society which I don’t think is beneficial, and that’s that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station – I’ve been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.”

— Bryan Cranston

96. “In real life, as it is in fiction, character is both formed and revealed when we are tested. When we are forced to make decisions under pressure, that test can either make us stronger or it can highlight our weaknesses and crack us into pieces.”

— Bryan Cranston

97. “Love art in yourself, not yourself in art.”

— Bryan Cranston

98. “The best teacher is experience. Find the educational in every situation.”

— Bryan Cranston

99. “That’s the life. That’s why talent alone doesn’t cut it. If you want to be a successful actor, mental toughness is essential. Lay your whole self-worth on getting the role, on the illusion of validation, before long you’re left angry, resentful, and jealous. You’re doomed.”

— Bryan Cranston

100. “The greatest thing about youth is that you’re not yet battle-weary, so you’ll try anything.”

— Bryan Cranston