Zitat des Tages von 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.
Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
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.
Money has never been my primary goal.
You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.
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.
Danger is cool.
I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.
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.
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.
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.
The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.
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.
Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.
There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.
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 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.
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.
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.
There's so many things that can go wrong in the execution of a project like a television show or a movie, so many little elements, any number of things, all the way to marketing - like they could market it poorly and nobody finds it and down it goes.
I look like everyone.
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.
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 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.
I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.
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.
You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.