Bryan Cranston Quotes

There's nothing worse in my book than going home with energy left over. I like to go home knowing I've put a shift in, feeling that I've pushed myself to the max.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

We all have some flaws. But when I have a moment of doubt, I find inspiration from being in the moment, by letting go. I don't hold onto what I can't control. Doubt is a fleeting emotion that can destroy you if you allow it to consume your mind and spirit. Each person's time comes at variant phases, and the best you can do is enjoy what you're doing and work hard. It can't always be about you. Life is transformation - the wind blows, climate changes, birds chirp and trees burn. Where you are today is not where you will be tomorrow. The only person you can be is you.

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.

Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.

I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.

I can rest when I'm dead.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."

If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

You can't take no breaks.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.