Bryan Cranston Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.”
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“To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.”
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“Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.”
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“Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.”
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“Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.”
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“Ever since I stopped worrying about finances, I've made more money than I ever thought I'd make in my life.”
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“The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.”
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“I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.”
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“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.”
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“What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.”
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“I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.”
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