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  • Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

    "Bryan Cranston Talks Drive, Breaking Dad and Total Recall at Tiff". Interview with Fred Topel, collider.com. September 19, 2011.
  • Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

    ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.
  • I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

    "'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass'" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 16, 2011.
  • 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.

  • 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 on Breaking Bad's craziest season and what's next". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2012.
  • The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume.

    "Bryan Cranston Talks Cohaagen, the End of BREAKING BAD, Turning Down X-MEN: FIRST CLASS & More on the Set of TOTAL RECALL". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2012.
  • When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

    "Q&A – Bryan Cranston (Director)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2009.
  • I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

  • My dear friend Aaron Paul. I love you so much.

    "Bryan Cranston And Aaron Paul Teared Up During Each Other's Emmy Acceptance Speeches". Bryan Cranston's Emmy acceptance speech for "Outstanding Lead Actor" Award, www.businessinsider.com. August 26, 2014.
  • 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.

    Interview with Fred Topel, www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk. March 23, 2009.
  • It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

    "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.
  • When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

    "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston looks back at Walter White’s greatest hits, part 2". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 13, 2012.
  • 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.

    "The Last Stand of Walter White". Interview with Brett Martin, www.gq.com. July 15, 2013.
  • 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 talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.
  • 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.

    "In Character" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.
  • 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.

  • I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.

    "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks BREAKING BAD Season 3 and 4, TOTAL RECALL, DRIVE, ROCK OF AGES, LARRY CROWNE & LINCOLN LAWYER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.
  • Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.

    "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.
  • I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

    Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.
  • 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 Answers Fan Questions (Part I)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2010.
  • 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.

    ""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.

    ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.
  • I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

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

  • In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

    "Bryan Cranston: 'I had to take my character from Mr Chips to Scarface" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.
  • What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

    Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2011.
  • 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.

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

    "OSCARS Q&A: Bryan Cranston". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.
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