Latest Bryan Cranston Quotes from Interviews

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• If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

  Bryan Cranston

  Hard Work, Simple, Proud

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Bryan Cranston

  Thinking, Water, Facts

  Source: collider.com

• The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that.

  Bryan Cranston

  Fun, Character, Loss

  Source: collider.com

• I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

  Bryan Cranston

  Purpose, Want, Busy

  Source: collider.com

• I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."

  Bryan Cranston

  Running, Regret, Done

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

• When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

  Bryan Cranston

  Sunset, Careers, Shining

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

• 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.

  Bryan Cranston

  Dad, Kids, Profound

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

• It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

  Bryan Cranston

  Children, Unfathomable, Happenings

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

• There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame to a plateau - it won't last there. I guess it is just a blue-collar work ethic that I was raised with.

  Bryan Cranston

  Blue, Careers, Work Ethic

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

• 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.

  Bryan Cranston

  Water, Riding, Looks

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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

  Bryan Cranston

  Tanks, Left

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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

  Bryan Cranston

  Jobs, Disappointment, Sleep

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• 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?

  Bryan Cranston

  Dad, Believe, Home

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• Let me demonstrate. When you greet a friend this is the duration of the kiss that's acceptable. "Hi, good to see you - yeah." When you make a mistake and stay too long at the lips, this is how long it is. "Hi, how are you? Good to see you." And that's what happened. It was like, "Uh-oh, what was that? Oh."

  Bryan Cranston

  Mistake, Kissing, Long

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

  Bryan Cranston

  Long, Letters, Scarlet

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.

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  Talking, Would Be, Sitting

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• [My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions.

  Bryan Cranston

  Heartbroken, Mother, Father

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

  Bryan Cranston

  Dream, Ideas, White

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

  Bryan Cranston

  Play, Speech, Panic

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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

  Bryan Cranston

  Opportunity, Want, Fortune

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• 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.

  Bryan Cranston

  Teacher, Cancer, School

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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

  Bryan Cranston

  Stars, Feels, Entitled

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives.

  Bryan Cranston

  Stars, Knowing, Three

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

• 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.

  Bryan Cranston

  Character, Responsibility, Play

• 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

  Giving, Missing, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.