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Quotes by Bryan Cranston

Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My fathers waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.

Console the failure, but nurture the hunger.

The greatest thing about youth is that youre not yet battle-weary, so youll try anything.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

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.

I think naturally, if youre an actor, theres a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. Theres boldness in being assertive, and theres strength and confidence.

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.

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.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if youre not healthy. You cant appreciate it.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Weve been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So were conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and thats the right thing for society.

I have some anger issues.