Bryan Cranston Quotes

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

The best phase for an actor is when he or she gets to choose what they want to play. Sometimes you do a film because the unit is good, the company is fantastic, and the intention is well placed.

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

I am glad that I am in a position to select scripts I would be comfortable working in.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor.

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

Your choices are very important. The only thing you have as actors are your choices: the option to say no to something. You don't want to take on a really bad job and be terrible in something - especially in film, because if you're bad in it, you're bad in it forever.

I wait and see what scripts come my way and then try and make a decision within the choices that I'm offered. I see what turns up, and if it's something I'd really rather not do, or I think it's too similar to something I've just done, I'll wait and hope for something else.

My choice of script is governed by two factors - either I've to like the people associated with the project or the storyline should be interesting. I focus more on the vibe and the type of energy I get from them.

I am very selective when it comes to scripts.

Whenever I like a character or a script, I take up the project and leave the rest to the audience.

I have been saying 'no' to many projects ever since people accepted Malar from the movie 'Premam.'

Pilot season's such a strange time. You get such a concentrated amount of scripts. A lot of them become white noise after a while. When something really pops, it becomes apparent very quickly. I'm quite instinctive about that. I know, normally by about 10 pages in, whether I want to do something or not.

Whenever somebody comes to me with a script, I ask a question to myself - 'Why do I want to do the film?'

I don't make a conscious effort to choose any particular genre. If I like the script, I go ahead with the project.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

My parameter of judging a script has not changed over the years. I still go for a script where the story interests me. Yes, there are times where I might go wrong; say, out of five scripts, I might go wrong on one.

I am open to doing cinema as long as I find the script right.

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

It doesn't make a difference to anybody if I accept or quit a film.