Jonathan Banks quotes:

I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.

I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot."

Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

Just because you shot Jesse James, don't make you Jesse James.

I've got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there's still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I'm not a high-energy guy.

Boy I could do this forever; I truly enjoy bad guys.

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

I honestly do feel - and I hope I don't gag anybody if they read this - but I feel like I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Wiseguy for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

I do like when you find a true personal relationship with any of the characters, you like to make that honest connection. And every once in a while, there's that glimmer where you got that line in where something happens, where you get to really talk.