Bryan Cranston Actors Quotations

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.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

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!

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

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

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

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

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

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

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

Actors are inherently self-centered.

Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.