It is a privileged viewpoint to be able to look at the Ku Klux Klan and laugh at them and belittle them for their broken and hateful ideology, but the Ku Klux Klan and Charlottesville and white supremacists — that’s still happening and it’s not funny. It’s not funny to any group that is marginalized by these groups’ hatred, and it really taught me something.

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

roles order needs

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

Bryan Cranston

angry wells directors

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

sunset careers shining

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

Bryan Cranston

actors goal

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

Bryan Cranston

actors stories jobs

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

giving country thinking

I look like everyone else.

Bryan Cranston

looks

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Bryan Cranston

civil-rights kind rights

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Bryan Cranston

mixing

Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

Bryan Cranston

mature want watches

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

actors pigs trying

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

appreciate healthy love-is

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

hair men interesting

Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.

Bryan Cranston

supportive hollywood kings

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.

Bryan Cranston

dollars mean thinking

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

perseverance successful art

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.

Bryan Cranston

elements marketing numbers

Pot always just made me sleepy.

Bryan Cranston

sleepy weed pot

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

Bryan Cranston

typecasting actors

It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.

Bryan Cranston

shoes mind men