I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.

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.

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

Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.