Quotes from Bryan Cranston

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.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Our whole society is instantaneous.

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.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

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.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.

I intend to do more directing TV.

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.

I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

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.

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.

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

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.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

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.

If you like vanilla, you're not going to like 'Breaking Bad' - you need to like a specific flavor that is unusual, that is different, that takes risks.