We’re leaving an awards show and we were asked not to stop, because if one actor stops and signs an autograph and the rest don’t then it makes them look bad, “so, please folks, just got right from the ballroom into the parties, will you?” Okay, fine, we’re going and we’re going and we’re going and all of a sudden the line stopped and I was behind people and there was nowhere to go and…

Cranston says he prepared ‘by thinking about the pro-and-con list, the way Walt would—about how if Jane dies Jesse stays alive. But in acting you open yourself. And in one of the takes, as I was thinking about how it was someone’s daughter, lying there, I was suddenly looking down at my own daughter’s face. Taylor popped in, and it made me gasp.’

*I gave Bryan a hug afterward,* Anna Gunn says, *and he just grabbed me and held on, crying.* It took him nearly fifteen minutes to stop. *It got him in a place he didn*t expect, a dark place.*
—On the filming of Jane’s death scene

Aaron Paul is such a truly beautiful person and someone who I know will be in my life forever.
—Bryan Cranston

“Ok. So I went to ABQ to produce the season 2 finale because Vince was too slammed, and (Spoiler. Fucking get up to speed) that was the plane crash episode and if you recall, we had Walt wearing a pink sweater that matched the teddy bear, and one of the wardrobe gals had a matching bag, so…”

“their friendship did matter” — the cranston on w and j

“There was hope for them at one time. In its truest sense, our story is a tragedy — an American tragedy. It’s not ‘good conquers evil,’ it’s not ‘good guys against the bad guys,’ it’s much muddier than that. Shades of gray.” — Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad

On the set for the final scene


Crew members dole out playful frowns and sad hugs to Cranston and Paul as they traverse the set. At one point, it all washes over Paul and his eyes moisten. Cranston wanders over to comfort him. “I’m going to be a wreck all week,” Paul warns sweetly. “Now that you said it, you don’t have to be,” comforts Cranston, patting his shoulder.
“I catch him every now and then,” says Cranston a few minutes later on the side of the stage. “He gets a little glass-eyed. I hope he never loses that. I don’t think he will. He was that way six years ago. That puppy-dog enthusiasm…” The pair have grown close over 62 episodes of cooks and calamities. “We’ve been on this road together,” he continues. “We’ve been in freezing cold together, we’ve been extremely hot and sweaty and dirty. Late nights and early mornings. Lots of stuff. And through it all, he’s been a champion.”

Bob Odenkirk at the 19th Annual Critics Choice Awards

He is a brother, he is a mentor, a best friend… he’s incredible. I look up to that man in so many ways, and I’ve learnt a lot from him. I will absolutely miss working with him. I will miss seeing him every day, but I won’t miss him miss him because we’re always going to see each other. I take him to go see Sigur Ros, that sort of thing. He loves music, he’s an incredible dancer - he’s just fun to hang out with.