A Life in Parts

by Bryan Cranston

We’d lie on our backs making smog angels in the yellowed grass.

Our favorite flick was Cat Ballou,

Whatever these people had achieved in life, whatever they had seen or suffered,

was reduced to a toe tag.

compared to other anarchic road warriors, we were squares, and always would be.

And then I fed off them. I could feel a kind of hive mind at work in the darkness of the theater. A symbiosis.

The best teacher is experience. Find the educational in every situation.

derisive comments (You’re an actor? What restaurant do you work in?),

Art is not life.

If people don’t enhance your life, you have to get rid of them.

I wanted to be the one who knocked.

If your home life is sane, it allows you to go insane in your work.

She hated being alone. Being with someone—anyone—was better than being alone.

All television, to that point, had been based on stasis, characters you come to know and love.

I go to my actor’s palette—which is comprised of personal experience, research, talent, and imagination—and

The advent of streaming services like Netflix created the opportunity for people to shoot Breaking Bad right into their veins.

story is essential. If the story isn’t compelling and the writing isn’t well constructed, it doesn’t matter how great the character is.