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- Follow up on Evan's question, 
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when did you know 
you could actually

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make a living as an actor?

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- [Host] Where was the point

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at which you knew, 
"I can do this?"

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- I didn't know, actually.

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You never know.

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At some point... 
- [Host] You don't know now?

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- In the arts, well you have 
to make a leap of faith.

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- [Bearded Man] Right.

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- But when I did that, 
I was 22 years old.

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I was stuck on the Blue 
Ridge Parkway of Virginia,

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on a motorcycle.

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It was pouring rain.

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For six days I was in 
this little picnic area.

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Felt kind of trapped, and I 
was reading a play at the time,

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and I had this epiphany.

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That I should attempt to try 
to do something that I love,

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and hopefully become good at.

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As opposed to 
focusing on something

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I am good at, but didn't love.

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So once I accepted that,

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I was all in.

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- [Host] Yeah.

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- And if that meant living 
with three other actors,

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at my age now, then 
that's what it means.

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- [Host] Yeah. 
[faint laughter]

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- [Host] Good. 
- I was willing to do that.

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And I would encourage 
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young person.

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Or less than young person, 
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- Not that he's 
speaking of anybody

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in particular. 
- [Bryan] Yes.

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- Who is interested in 
a career in the arts.

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Is that you can't 
dip your toe in,

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you have to be all in.

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- [Host] All in. Very good.

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Sir. 
- [Bryan] Thank you.

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- Is it safe to say you that you

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have watched Better Call Saul?

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And how different is that?

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Walter White perspective,

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or from just a viewer like me?

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- Just like you.

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I love the show.

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- [Host] Right. 
Odenkirk is so great.

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- It's great. It's so good.

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It has that familiarity

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of the milieu of Breaking Bad,

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and yet it's 
completely different.

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Except there are characters 
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it's been over almost,

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it's been just a 
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since we stopped 
shooting Breaking Bad.

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objective viewpoint 
of it and I'm able

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to watch it and just 
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- Have you read the news reports

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that they're going to bring Gus 
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- They are?

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- They're gonna Jon Snow us,

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is that what they're gonna do?

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(audience laughter) 
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I don't know.

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I say, "Don't say anything.

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"Don't tell me anything.

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"I don't want to hear anything.

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talking apparently.

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- "I don't want to 
hear anything, I just 
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- [Host] Alright. Sir.

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- [Bryan] Hi. 
- Hi.

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In the development and growth

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of your character Walter White,

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the riffraff type 
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- Tell us about our 
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(audience laughter) 
that's what the question is.

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(audience laughter)

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the lung cancer he had.

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that street-level drug dealing.

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- And I thought over time 
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to learn it just as 
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So what I did, go 
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of research on just 
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I went back to the University 
of Southern California

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and walked around, and 
was like a shadow to them.

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- Just learning the 
fascination of chemistry

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and now it is fascinating to me.

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- If we asked you about 
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a few years again.

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it's a good answer.

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- I really appreciate 
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about not sitting in 
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'Cause that's a lesson 
I learned the hard way.

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who do objectively 
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how do you not allow 
yourself to judge them?

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- Well it's hard to speak

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general terms for 
probably a specific thing

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your character you're 
thinking about.

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was necessary to do.

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you can at least go back 
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to your character 
that then would

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justifiably

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character would commit an act

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that seems egregious,

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- [Man] Yeah.

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at that time.

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- [Man] Yeah. 
- So that's your job.

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You go, "Okay, how can I

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"beat this baby 
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"How in the world do I...?" 
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- So, okay, go back and 
figure out what were

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the twists and turns of 
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that lead him to that.

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as far as your actions 
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- That was a Tim Whatley 
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- Look at this.

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- From Seinfeld, I'm sure. 
- [Bryan] Wow wow.

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- It's hard to let go.

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- [Bryan] Heisenberg Empire.

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(Man laughs) 
- [Host] Wow.

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- [Host] What do you got? 
- Do you see that?

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Put that on camera.

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Look at that. 
- [Host] It's a great shirt.

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- [Host] Yes, indeed.

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- Regarding The Infiltrator 
and the role of Robert Mazur,

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what resonated with you 
about that role specifically?

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- Thank you.

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He's like helping me 
promote another movie.

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(audience laughter)

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The Infiltrator 
comes out in July.

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It's about an 
undercover policeman.

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I finally get to 
play a policeman.

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- After all these. 
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- look at that, after 
all these years.

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in customs,

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U.S. Customs.

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the seventh largest 
bank in the world, BCCI.

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Remember BCCI? 
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- Back in the 80's. Yeah?

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And also had thirty-five arrests

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of drug cartel members 
in one fell swoop.

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And it really happened.

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It was a deep undercover 
- [Host] Right.

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- project and it was great.

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So that comes out, 
and I get to play

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a good guy for a change.

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- [Host] Fun. 
- Yeah.

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- [Host] Good. 
- Thank you.

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- Sir.

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- I heard through a 
questionable source

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that at one point you 
worked as a carny.

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Did any of your skills 
at that time translate

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to acting or did you use any?

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- The premise accurate?

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Were you a carny at one point?

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- Well, I want to know who 
your questionable source is.

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(audience laughter)

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Actually it's true.

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It's true, I did work in 
a carnival a few times.

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Back when I was twelve 
or thirteen years old.

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'Member when, those of 
us who are of that age?

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You can actually find a job

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and they didn't have 
this litigious society 
that we do now.

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So I worked in what 
they call the joints,

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which are the booths, 
where you're throwing darts

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or pitching a dime or 
whatever that sort of thing.

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And a thing called slaw,

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which is when you 
break down the rides

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when they're done for 
that day and they go off.

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Yeah, it's an 
interesting subculture.

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And certainly something 
that you could learn from

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from an acting standpoint.

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I tell actors all the time,

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there's no reason in the 
world you should be bored.

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If you're bored, you're 
not doing your work.

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- [Host] Right.

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- You know you should 
go to restaurants,

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and airports, and emergency 
rooms, and all these things.

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And watch human behavior, 
so that you can replicate.

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You file it away like 
a filing cabinet.

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In your mind and you're 
- [Host] It's called research.

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- you're able to pull it out.

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- Good question. 
Good premise too.

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Good source.

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(audience laughter)

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- Albeit questionable.

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- Albeit questionable. Sir.

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- Is there any story 
from working on 
Seinfeld in particular

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that you really remember that 
you want to share with us?

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Maybe an uncomfortable 
moment with Larry David.

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- [Host] Speaking of TV. 
- An uncomfortable moment?

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- Speaking of TV shows 
that changed television.

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- [Host] Right? 
- Yeah.

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- I was fortunate, I 
played Tim Whatley,

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the dentist on Seinfeld.

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I'll give you one story that

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really resonated with me.

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We were doing a scene.

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There was one episode 
where Jerry didn't know

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if I was molesting him or not.

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(audience laughter)

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(Man laughs)

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(loud laughter)

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(faint applause)

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So he was abject and I 
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dental hygienist and he 
didn't like that whole thing.

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And so, I asked for 
the Nitrous Oxide

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and he goes out,

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and then when he wakes up 
his shirt is un-tucked.

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(audience laughter)

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And then he says,

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"I don't know if I was 
tucked or un-tucked."

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(man laughs) 
(audience laughs)

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- [Host] Good. Good.

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- So we rehearsed 
the scene, fine.

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And everybody left and I 
stayed in my dental office

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because I wanted to get 
comfortable with the tools

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and the feeling of the 
stool and moving things.

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And, the more comfortable 
you are as an actor,

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the better you perform.

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So, I'm sitting, I'm 
doing a couple of things

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and I hear this guy say,

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"Hey, you know what 
would be funny?"

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And I look around 
and on a ladder,

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adjusting a light,

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is an electrician.

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And I went, "What?"

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"It'd be funny if you took 
a hit of the Nitrous Oxide

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"before you gave it to Jerry."

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(audience laughter)

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And I said, "I 
think you're right."

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(audience laughter)

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So it comes to the 
dress rehearsal,

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and sure enough I say, 
"Nurse the Nitrogen Oxide?"

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And she hands me 
the mask and I go,

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(hissing air)

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"That's good."

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(audience laughter)

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And I gave it to Jerry,

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and Jerry falls off the chair

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he's laughing so hard. 
- [Host] Oh my.

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And Larry David says,

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"That's in the show.

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"I love it!

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"I love it!

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"I love it!"

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And I said,

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"He gave it to me."

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He's not on a ladder anymore 
and he was like, "Yeah."

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So, again, it's like 
it doesn't matter

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where a good idea comes from.

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It stayed in the show.

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If you see that rerun, 
that's in the show.

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- [Host] That's hilarious.

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- It wasn't written, 
it wasn't my idea.

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- I think we have time for 
one more, is that right?

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- [Voiceover] We have 
about one minute.

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- [Bryan] One minute. 
- One minute.

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- Last one, quick 
one, I'm sorry.

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- Alright.

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Hi there.

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Something I was very 
surprised at watching

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the documentaries 
about Breaking Bad

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is that there's kind of 
this overall culture,

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I guess, of excellence.

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It wasn't just you, and 
it wasn't just Vince,

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but to the cameraman there 
was this enormous investment.

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Just how important 
do you think that is

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to creating really 
just great artwork?

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- Oh, it's vital.

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- [Host] Everybody be bought in.

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- Everybody, everybody has to.

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If incrementally everybody 
worked five percent better,

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a show would improve measurably.

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- [Host] Yeah.

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- So it's up to those 
of us who lead the cast,

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and I was one of the 
producers as well.

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The director of 
photography leads the crew.

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Our writer leads.

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So all the producers,

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we knew that what 
we wanted to create

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was a culture of respect 
to the crew and cast.

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That we expected them 
to do their work.

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We can have fun doing it, 
- [Host] Yeah.

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- and then let's all go home.

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We had six years in New 
Mexico of shooting that show.

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And every crew member 
kept coming by,

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dropping off resumes wanting 
to be part of our show.

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Why?

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Because we had a great time.

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Every year, Aaron Paul and I 
would host a bowling party.

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(audience chuckles)

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We would book out an 
entire bowling alley

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and we'd have it on 
a Sunday afternoon.

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It was open to 
every crew member,

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and cast member 
and their families.

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"Bring the kids, 
everybody come!"

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So you're not spending another 
day away from your family,

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you're actually including them.

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- [Host] Yeah.

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And that kind of a thing 
was not only fun to do,

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and as thank you to the 
crew that worked hard,

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but it also started helping 
us to bond really tightly.

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And we still keep in touch 
with a lot of those people.

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- Well, that's another emblem 
of your fundamental decency.

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I think that's 
actually a great thing.

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- His?

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- No, yours. 
- [Bryan] Oh.

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(audience laughter) 
- [Host] I mean, he's

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I will say, he seems nice.

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- [Bryan] He looks 
fundamentally decent.

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- [Host] But I'm 
thinking of you.

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(audience laughter)

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- [Host] We're out of time.

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It's a great place to end.

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But thank you so much

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- Thank you, thank you. 
- [Host] for your generosity.

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(audience applause)

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- Bryan Cranston!

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- [Bryan] Thank you. 
- Thank you all for coming.

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We're gonna let him get out. 
- [Bryan] Thank you.

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- If you would just stay 
until we get him outta here.

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- [Bryan] Thank you!

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(audience cheers)