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Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston

American Actor

Born: Mar 7, 1956

Actor Love People Think Will You

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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

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

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best. Bryan Cranston

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

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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

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With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness. Bryan Cranston

You Predict Defense Very Little Craziness

Our whole society is instantaneous. Bryan Cranston

Society Our Instantaneous Whole

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

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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. Bryan Cranston

I intend to do more directing TV. Bryan Cranston

TV Directing More Intend

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong. Bryan Cranston

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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

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

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

Job Back Draw Part Up Story Actor

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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I don't have spare time. Bryan Cranston

Time Spare Spare Time

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

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

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