Bryan Cranston on How “The X-Files” Led to His Big Break (2012)

was it killing you all those years like you do a bit part on this one like you were on Seinfeld and people don't even know that now they realize it but you know is it killing you cuz you know you're a great actor inside and the public doesn't know you and Hollywood doesn't wanted to have that opportunity

well you said the key word Robin because the only thing that actors really need and want is opportunity if they get a chance to walk in the room then that's up to them but if you never get that chance it's it's it's hard to have a career is it amazing how many good

actors there are who never get that chance unbelievable yeah in all the acting classes that I've been in I've seen brilliant actors who can who I've never seen again I see guys on Broadway you know they do okay but they they never break through to the next level movies and all this kind of stuff the

reason is there's a component that actors fail to understand or completely Embrace and that is if you have talent let's say everybody has the same Talent right you have talent you have perseverance and you have patience but there's a component that you absolutely have to have in order to have a a successful career career as an actor

writer or director and that's luck you cannot have there has not been a successful career in our business without looking back and going oh that was a lucky break and that was a lucky break I had two you're right if you hadn't gotten that small part on X Files he would have been screwed I wrote a

movie for my wife a little romantic drama for a birthday present and then she's read it and goes oh this is fantastic when are we going to do it and I thought oh never I thought if I could just write this you know so then I start it was put away for years and then