Quotes from Bryan Cranston

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

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

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

I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

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.

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.

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

Ever since I stopped worrying about finances, I've made more money than I ever thought I'd make in my life.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

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.

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

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Money has never been my primary goal.

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 appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.