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Bryan Cranston

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  1. “Right away. I went and it was like, oh my God. And my cousin and I tried to get a hold of each other back in the days. You either were home or not. And that was it. And finally, we did. Yes, he was the guy. Oh my God. And we were shocked, but that was our brush with Charlie”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Mesmerize, and as soon as they all pass, my cousin, who was in front of me, turned back and says, that must be Charlie. And I went, yeah, I guess, ooh, that was weird. And we forgot about it, of course. It was a year and a half, two years later, that the Sharon Tate murders were being investigated and they arrested Charlie Manson and the picture popped up on the news and I gasped.”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Walked off in the same direction about 20 minutes later, we can see this trail of horses coming back our way, and it's a very thin pathway. And so we were on the right, they were on the left, and there was a man in the middle, a short man, bearded, black hair, very thin and skinny, and he was not holding his reins. The person in front of him had the reins of his horse as well. And they were just pulling him. And through the undulation of the horse, he was just going with the motion like a machine. And as we passed, probably four or five feet away from him, we're walking back and we just looked at him and he had these big dark eyes. And we memorized that face because of the fact it was so... Hyperbolic in everything that happened.”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “It was actually before the experience with my grandparents when I was still living in Canoga Park, California. My female cousin, who was just a year older than I was, and I were dropped off at the Spawn Ranch in Santa Susanna Pass and Chatsworth to go horseback riding. This is in the suburb of Los Angeles. And we were getting our horses and some young hippie at the time. This was 1967, came running in and yelling, Charlie's on the hill, Charlie's on the hill. And it startled us. And we grabbed each other. And the old guy who was checking us in said, oh, okay. And we looked out the window and maybe eight or ten young people jumped on horses and went galloping away. It was like a scene out of a movie. It was like, my, that was exciting. Oh, don't worry about that. Don't worry. Okay, so we forgot about that. And he goes out and gets us.”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “My brother and I went kicking and screaming. We hated the idea of going, but the collapse of the family, our house was foreclosed on. We were kicked out. We had no means. So my grandparents, my maternal grandparents took us in in a little community called Yukaipa, California. And they had a little farm, a gentleman's farm, and next to us was an egg ranch that my brother and I worked at. What we didn't realize at our young age was what my grandfather and grandmother were able to provide was a discipline, strictness, order. Predictability, that's what we needed. We wouldn't have asked for it, but that's what we needed. And that's what we got.”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Absent really emotionally for the kids, and my dad was absent completely, and so there was a vacuum left, and what to do with that, and I was eleven, twelve years old and far too young to be thrust into that position. But in retrospect, I look back and I realize that, well, parents are always teaching you something. In the best of cases, it's how to behave, how to become a good adult, and in some cases, in many cases for me, it's what not to do. I looked at the pathway that my mother took and that my father took as a cautionary tale and realized that's not where I want to go.”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Yeah, so it was my mom. And then reality sets in that this is a very difficult business. And in show business especially, success is only acquired through hard work and a lot of luck. You have to be patient and persistent and somewhere somehow get the lucky breaks necessary for you to crack open that door and show people what you can do. And that's where the hard work comes in. You have to be talented. You have to be able to produce. And my father was always intent on being a star. And it never came. And when it didn't come, it crushed him. And he left the family, and it crushed my mother, the love of her life, and she became an alcoholic.”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Well, I think it is hard, but isn't every business hard? I think that's the common denominator of everyone who's successful, is that you work hard. My parents met in an acting class after the war. They had a fast and furious romance. They got married. They start having kids and they were going to conquer the world like every young coupled thinks. Yeah, your dad.”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “It's kind of like an athletic event. I get up for the game, I put on the uniform and the pads, I get out there and I try to leave everything out there. I get exhausted mentally, physically, emotionally. But you're on adrenaline still, so it's not until the next day when I wake up that I go, oh, my neck is sore. How do I get that bruise?”

    2019-04-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 322 — Bryan Cranston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source