Bryan Cranston quotes

Bryan Cranston is an American actor, director, and producer, widely recognized for his versatile performances. His most famous role is Walter White in the critically acclaimed television series "Breaking Bad." He has earned numerous awards for his work and continues to be a prominent figure in film and television. Here are 72 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I have some anger issues.

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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

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

Bryan Cranston

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

Bryan Cranston

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.

Bryan Cranston

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

Bryan Cranston

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.

Bryan 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

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

Bryan Cranston

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Bryan Cranston

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

Bryan Cranston

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

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

Bryan Cranston