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
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
People would love to be rich, but they’re looking for the easy way. Who wouldn’t want to win the lottery? Just to score. – Bryan Cranston
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
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. – Bryan Cranston
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
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
I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t. – 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
It’s mind-altering when you slip into someone else’s shoes. That’s psychedelic, man. – Bryan Cranston
You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They’ll turn you off. – Bryan Cranston
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
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
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
Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love. – Bryan Cranston
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. – Bryan Cranston
With craziness, you can’t predict it. There’s very little defense you can have on craziness. – 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