Bryan Cranston Quotes

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

I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it.

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

Actors are inherently self-centered.

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

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

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.

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.'

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

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

In fact, I told our dear friends, the Burrell boys, five boys lived next door to us. "Why, we don't see your dad anymore?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah. He" - I lied. I said, "He comes home at night when you guys are in bed. He gets us up and we play." I said it so much that I started to believe it myself, you know?

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

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

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.

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

I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'

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

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.

It's cyclical. I'm riding a wave right now, and I recognize that. I wanna do as much work as I can, do the best I can. And when it's all said and done and they say, "Get outta the water, you're done," I wanna be so exhausted that I look forward to it.

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.

I don't wanna have anything left in the tank.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it.

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

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.

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.

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