Bryan Cranston

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great. ”

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things. ”

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. ”

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature. ”

I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child. ”

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly. ”

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer. ”

I don't have spare time. ”

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen. ”

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time. ”