Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life. Jonathan Banks Read Quote
When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I’m not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know? Jonathan Banks Read Quote
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. Jonathan Banks Read Quote
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. Jonathan Banks Read Quote
I love ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ but there were moments where I thought it didn’t have the constant through-line that ‘Breaking Bad’ did and ‘Better Call Saul’ does. Jonathan Banks Read Quote
I was a janitor when I was 16, cleaning out garbage rooms in Washington, D.C., and they were foul. It gets really hot in D.C. in the summertime, and you then take on the essence of garbage. People would stand away from me on the sidewalk as I came toward them. Jonathan Banks Read Quote
It really bothers me that Stephen Cannell has died. I had lunch with him about eight months before he died, and… I really liked him. I really did. Jonathan Banks Read Quote
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. Jonathan Banks Read Quote
