Bryan Cranston Quotes

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I see a military person, it gives me such a sense of pride but also a sense of responsibility to project excellence when representing them.

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

And I think when you're playing someone who is a real person, it's extremely important to take the time and put in the effort to learn about who they are to be able to respectfully portray that.

Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.

It's a great responsibility playing a real-life character because the person has reached a certain position after undergoing a lot of things.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the other information of the custom department's choices, and the set department, "Where are you," and all those other pieces of information but you have to cull from your imagination the answer to all the unasked questions. And with a real person, there's someone to get that information from, perhaps.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide.