70+ Bryan Cranston Quotes On Success, Education And Success And Failure

Bryan Cranston is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Walter White in the AMC drama series Breaking Bad, Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and Dr. Tim Whatley in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. He has won numerous awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Bryan Cranston on success, life, education.

Top 10 Bryan Cranston Quotes

1. 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.
2. When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.
3. 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.
4. Ever since I stopped worrying about finances, I've made more money than I ever thought I'd make in my life.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Bryan Cranston Short Quotes

• I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.
• It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.
• I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."
• I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it.
• Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.
• My goal has always been to be a working actor.
• If you have a screaming angry director, everyone else will be panicked as well.
• I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.
• There's boldness in being assertive; there's strength and confidence.
• Pot always just made me sleepy.

Bryan Cranston Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself. — Bryan Cranston

It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive. — 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

Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers. — Bryan Cranston

The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that. — Bryan Cranston

It's cyclical. I'm riding a wave right now, and I recognize that. I wanna do as much work as I can, do the best I can. And when it's all said and done and they say, "Get outta the water, you're done," I wanna be so exhausted that I look forward to it. — 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

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

I intend to do more directing TV. — Bryan Cranston

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time. — Bryan Cranston

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me. — Bryan Cranston

I don't wanna have anything left in the tank. — Bryan Cranston

I look like everyone else. — Bryan Cranston

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

I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories high, knowing I'm on the street where it lives. — Bryan Cranston

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic. — Bryan Cranston

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me. — Bryan Cranston

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

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul. — 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

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

Let me demonstrate. When you greet a friend this is the duration of the kiss that's acceptable. "Hi, good to see you - yeah." When you make a mistake and stay too long at the lips, this is how long it is. "Hi, how are you? Good to see you." And that's what happened. It was like, "Uh-oh, what was that? Oh." — Bryan Cranston

Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory. — 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

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple. — 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

[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions. — 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

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

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

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 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

Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it's drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are. — Bryan Cranston

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

There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame to a plateau - it won't last there. I guess it is just a blue-collar work ethic that I was raised with. — 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'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

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

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

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

I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. 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

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

Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family. — Bryan Cranston

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it. — Bryan Cranston

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. — Bryan Cranston

In fact, I told our dear friends, the Burrell boys, five boys lived next door to us. "Why, we don't see your dad anymore?" "Oh, yeah. Yeah. He" - I lied. I said, "He comes home at night when you guys are in bed. He gets us up and we play." I said it so much that I started to believe it myself, you know? — Bryan Cranston

Life Lessons by Bryan Cranston

1. Bryan Cranston has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter what the odds.
2. He has also demonstrated that it is possible to reinvent yourself and achieve success in a new field.
3. Finally, Cranston has shown that it is possible to remain humble and kind even when achieving great success.