Cranston Quotes & Sayings

My name is Jerrod Ross, Squire from Pendern Hall. And who might you be, madam?"

"I? I am Sandra Cranston, Mistress of the walk-up second story flat," she replied coldly.~Timeless Heart — Karyn Gerrard

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. — Bryan Cranston

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are. — Bryan Cranston

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

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

The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

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

Mixing humor and politics is something that works. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day. — Bryan Cranston

Console the failure, but nurture the hunger. — Bryan Cranston

We got the best actors imaginable [in Kung Fu Panda]. If we could have made a wish list I don't think there would anyone else we would have added. Yeah, we've been blessed with exactly how amazing a cast of actors we have. To have someone like Bryan Cranston, who is not just an amazing actor, but who has such a range. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us. — Bryan Cranston

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story. — Bryan Cranston

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world. — Alan Cranston

In addition to being an extraordinary actor, Bryan Cranston is a really generous guy and also very funny. — David Costabile

I began keeping diaries after they locked Rosemary up at Butler and I went to live with Aunt Elaine in Cranston until I was eighteen, but even the diaries can't be trusted. For instance, there's a series of entries describing a trip to New Brunswick that I'm pretty sure I never took. It used to scare me, those recollections of things that never took place, but I've gotten used to it. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done. — Alan Cranston

The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to. — Alan Cranston

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

You do sometimes watch performances and just think, 'I may as well give up. I won't reach that. I may as well give up.' But then there are other actors you watch and just think, 'Oh my God, yes, I want to try and do that. Try and be like that'. And Bryan Cranston is someone who I'd like to try and be like. — Tom Mison

When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity. — Bryan Cranston

The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences. — Alan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

Actors are inherently self-centered. — Bryan Cranston

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

I look like everyone. — Bryan Cranston

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

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

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. — Bryan Cranston

I'm sorry to bang on about it because I know everyone is, but Bryan Cranston in 'Breaking Bad' is remarkable. To see him switch from 'Malcolm in the Middle' to suddenly become Walter White is incredible. It's a) nice to see an actor given that chance, and b) great to see him really take full advantage of it. — Tom Mison

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. — Bryan Cranston

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not. — Bryan Cranston

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

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. — Bryan Cranston

I mean, imagine for a second Olivero Barretto, some nice Italian kid from down the block in Cranston, Rhode Island. He comes to see Mr. Cavilleri, a wage-earning pastry chef of that city, and says, "I would like to marry your only daughter, Jennifer." What would the old man's first question be? (He would not question Barretto's love, since to know Jenny is to love Jenny; it's a universal truth). No, Mr. Cavilleri would say something like, "Barretto, how are you going to support her? — Erich Segal

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. — Bryan Cranston

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

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days. — Alan Cranston

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

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels. — Bryan Cranston

To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure. — Bryan Cranston

Money has never been my primary goal. — Bryan Cranston

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston? — Amiri Baraka

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

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. — Bryan Cranston

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

I don't have spare time. — Bryan Cranston

Pot always just made me sleepy. — Bryan Cranston

I will pursue something that I love -- and hopefully become good at it, instead of pursuing something that I'm good at -- but don't love. — Bryan Cranston

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities. — Bryan Cranston

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if someone gets hurt, then we didn't do our job, someone screwed up. The fight choreographers and the actors involved, we messed up somewhere. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

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

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. — Bryan Cranston

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color. — Toller Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from. — Bryan Cranston

Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds. Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity. — Toller Cranston

The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment. — Daniel Seligman

My goal has always been to be a working actor. — Bryan Cranston

She tried to remember if it had been there on her way in but she couldn't. She shook her head. I need to get out of this place; it's giving me the heebie-jeebies. — Kathy Cranston

Lieutenant Cranston, sitting across the tavern table from him, looked startled. "Something amiss, Captain?" "It's as I feared - we've been called back to sea early. We set sail in less than a — Elizabeth Hoyt

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. — Bryan Cranston

Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador. — Alan Cranston

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

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

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

There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else. — Alan Cranston

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me. — Bryan Cranston

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

The best teacher is experience. Find the educational in every situation. — Bryan Cranston

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

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. — Bryan Cranston

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong. — Bryan Cranston

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

The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow. — Alan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters. — Alan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence. — Bryan Cranston

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

I let that swim around in my aching head for a few minutes - "the arsenal of megadeath ... the arsenal of megadeath" - and then, for some reason I can't quite explain, I began to write. Using a borrowed pencil and a cupcake wrapper, I wrote the first lyrics of my post-Metallica life. This song was called "Megadeth" (I dropped the second "a"), and though it would never find its way onto an album, it did serve as the basis for the song "Set the World Afire." It hadn't occured to me then that Megadeth-as used by Senator Cranston, megadeath referred to the loss of one million lives as a result of nuclear holocaust-might be a perfectly awesome name for a thrash metal band. — Dave Mustaine

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. — Bryan Cranston

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives. — Alan Cranston

I have some anger issues. — Bryan Cranston

Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so clear in his approach. — Jessica Hecht

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. — Bryan Cranston

You don't want to be a Kardashian. — Bryan Cranston

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

When 'Malcolm in the Middle' was over, I was looking for a drama more than a comedy ... but if it was a comedy that came up, it would have to be as well-written as 'Malcolm' was, and it would have to be a different kind of character than I played on that show. That's harder to come by. In drama, there were more opportunities, more options for me, and when I read ('Breaking Bad'), it was just, 'Good night, Nurse! I'm going after this sucker!' — Bryan Cranston

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all. — Alan Cranston

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

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston