I intend to do more directing TV. Bryan Cranston More Quotes by Bryan Cranston More Quotes From Bryan Cranston I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't. Bryan Cranston long-ago focus attention 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 falling-in-love passion risk 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 sweat yoga drinking 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 water facts thinking 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 proud hard-work simple I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not. Bryan Cranston why-not thinking 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 political country thinking 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 mean believe art 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 stars expectations mean 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 good-night character drama I don't wanna have anything left in the tank. Bryan Cranston tanks left 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 agency wish thinking 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 games order people 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 assuming comedy people When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities. Bryan Cranston high-expectations insecurity expectations I have some anger issues. Bryan Cranston anger-issues issues Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us. Bryan Cranston ive-learned actors 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 responsibility play character There are far more talented people doing voice work than I. Bryan Cranston voice people Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time. Bryan Cranston scarlet letters long
