Ronzio Cranston Quotes

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

I look like everyone. ~ Bryan Cranston

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

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

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

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

​It's okay to be afraid. Being afraid can sometimes mean that you're actually doing something worthwhile. ~ Bryan Cranston

But the only way to get lucky is to be prepared for luck to find you. ~ Bryan Cranston

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

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

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

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

Our whole society is instantaneous. ~ Bryan Cranston

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

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

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

I don't have spare time. ~ Bryan Cranston

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

I have some anger issues. ~ Bryan Cranston

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

Money has never been my primary goal. ~ Bryan Cranston

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

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

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

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. ~ 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

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

Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory. ~ Bryan Cranston

Actors are inherently self-centered. ~ Bryan 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

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great. ~ 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 don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax. ~ Bryan Cranston

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. ~ Bryan Cranston

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny. ~ 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 think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not. ~ Bryan Cranston

There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence. ~ 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

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

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

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

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything! ~ Bryan Cranston

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that. ~ 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

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

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me. ~ Bryan Cranston

It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works. ~ 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

In real life, as it is in fiction, character is both formed and revealed when we are tested. When we are forced to make decisions under pressure, that test can either make us stronger or it can highlight our weaknesses and crack us into pieces. ~ Bryan 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 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

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

My dear friend Aaron Paul, I love you so much. ~ 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

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

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

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. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Bryan Cranston

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. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.' ~ Bryan Cranston

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

I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days. ~ Joel Kinnaman

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

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

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

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

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