Bryan Cranston Quotes

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

As an actor, I love a challenge.

Acting takes courage.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

I've never found acting that difficult.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school. It's like going to the gym as an actor: every single night, you have to recreate the illusion of the first time, so you really have to listen and connect and stay in the moment for an hour and a half - with no breaks.

It's fun finding your way to the performance instead of coming in and hoping to God you're impressing the director - and hoping you're delivering the lines right with no treatment beforehand.

As an actor I believe in doing all sorts of genres.

I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, 'I could do that.'

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

Acting is always hard.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.