Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Lee Cranston is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for portraying Walter White on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and Hal on the Fox comedy series Malcolm in the Middle. For Breaking Bad, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times, including three consecutive wins. After becoming one of the producers of Breaking Bad in 2011, he also won the award for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth7 March 1956
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.
The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume.
When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.
My goal has always been to be a working actor.
I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.
As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.
The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.
Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.
The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.
Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.
It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.
Actors are inherently self-centered.