3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston Every experience feeds an actor, and I’ve learned that depression is all around us.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston I think naturally, if you’re an actor, there’s a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There’s boldness in being assertive, and there’s strength and confidence.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can’t. It’s against the law of nature.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
