A Life in Parts Audiobook (Free)
- Bryan Cranston
- 8 h 52 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2016-10-11
Summary:
Winner of the 2017 Audie Prize for Narration by the writer
“Nothing lacking riveting…an engrossing first-person accounts by one of our finest stars” (Huffington Post)-both a coming-of-age story and a yoga on creativity, devotion, and craft-Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed celebrity of one of history’s most successful Television shows, Breaking Bad.
Bryan Cranston began his operating career at the age of seven, when his father, a struggling actor and sometime director, cast him inside a commercial about A Existence in Parts for United Method. By fifth quality he was starring in the institution play, spending hours at the neighborhood movie theater, and re-enacting preferred scenes along with his sibling within their living room. Cranston seemed destined to become an actor. But his father left. And his family members fell apart. Stressed by his father’s missteps, Cranston empty his acting dreams and resolved to pursue a steadier career in law enforcement. Then, on the two-year cross-country motorbike journey, Cranston re-discovered his talent for performing and found his objective and his contacting.
With this “must-read memoir” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Cranston traces the many functions he inhabited throughout his remarkable life, both on and off screen. For the first time he stocks the storyplot of his early years as an acting professional on the cleaning soap opera Loving, his repeating places on Seinfeld, and his period as bumbling dad Hal on Malcolm in the centre, to his tour-de-force, Tony-winning efficiency as Lyndon Baines Johnson in Broadway’s All the Way, to his most iconic function of all: Breaking Bad’s Walter White.
“An illuminating home window in to the actor’s psyche” (People), Cranston has very much to say about creativity, devotion, and art, aswell as innate skill and its issues and benefits and proper maintenance. “By turns gritty, funny, and unfortunate” (Entertainment Weekly), eventually A Lifestyle in Parts is a tale about the pleasure, the necessity, and the transformative power of basic hard work.