Bryan Cranston Quotes

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't necessarily take you all the way. Talent, nepotism, influence, and pure luck play a huge part.

I've been just unsuccessful enough not to have been given a big opportunity too soon.

I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.

I'm young, but I've been doing this a long time... There's obviously a lot of hard work that goes into it. It's a hard town. There's a lot of talent here. It's all about timing, too. I just feel like I finally found the right town and the right song.

When it comes to opportunities, your father or mother can only set up a meeting for you. However, your opportunities will only materialise if the star kid is talented or suits the role.

Greatness comes to those who wait.

Making a breakthrough at the big clubs, a lot of it is down to luck with your timing.

I believe that reality shows are extremely important for the talented. Contestants get a platform where they can prove their talent. If they are good at what they do, their life is made. Personally, reality shows have helped me get fame and money.

I would not have succeeded as a comedian had I not had some hugely lucky breaks.

People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.