We hear all the time about actors having people shout lines of dialogue at them when they’re in public or being asked by fans to recite a particular quote. This can surely be annoying to celebrities when they’re asked to perform on command, but it’s hard to fault the fans for being excited … right? Maybe not. Bryan Cranston admitted that he tends to troll people who ask him to say a famous Breaking Bad line, but after hearing why, I’m actually on the actor’s side.
Breaking Bad may be one of the best TV dramas ever made, with Bryan Cranston making the ultimate character transformation from Walter White, chemistry teacher with cancer, to “Heisenberg,” meth producer and drug lord. There were so many moments in Breaking Bad that blew our minds, so it’s really not a surprise that the actor gets fans asking to hear his most menacing quotes. In a conversation for Esquire, Frankie Muniz asked Cranston what famous line people want him to say, and he admitted to doing what he’s asked, just not in the way they want to hear it. He said:
