From BarnesandNoble.com:
Bryan Cranston began his acting career at the age of seven,
when his father, a struggling actor and sometime director, cast him in a
commercial for United Way. By fifth grade he was starring in the school play,
spending hours at the local movie theater, and re-enacting favorite scenes with
his brother in their living room. Cranston seemed destined to be an actor. But
then his father left. And his family fell apart. Troubled by his father’s
missteps, Cranston abandoned his acting aspirations and resolved to pursue a
steadier career in law enforcement. Then, on a two-year cross-country
motorcycle journey, Cranston re-discovered his talent for acting and found his
mission and his calling.
In this “must-read memoir” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Cranston traces the
many roles he inhabited throughout his remarkable life, both on and off screen.
For the first time he shares the story of his early years as an actor on the
soap opera Loving, his
recurring spots on Seinfeld, and his
time as bumbling father Hal on Malcolm
in the Middle, to his tour-de-force, Tony-winning performance as
Lyndon Baines Johnson in Broadway’s All
the Way, to his most iconic role of all: Breaking
Bad’s Walter White.
“An illuminating window into the actor’s psyche” (People), Cranston has much to say about
creativity, devotion, and craft, as well as innate talent and its challenges
and benefits and proper maintenance. “By turns gritty, funny, and sad” (Entertainment Weekly), ultimately A Life in Parts is a story about the
joy, the necessity, and the transformative power of simple hard work.
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