Michael McKean

“My wife makes an amazing chili.”

“I try and find a way to love every character I play.”

“I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.”

“I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was LBJ - and he says to me, 'You should play the brother in 'Better Call Saul.' I was like 'What?' and it was time to go on. I'm doing the scene, and I can't think of what Hoover's supposed to say.”

“I'm not really a gourmet. I like to try new things.”

“That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.”

“When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.”

“Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!”

“You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.”

“I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.”

“People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way.”

“David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in.”

“Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way.”

“I like working with Bob Odenkirk.”

“A character has to believe in himself, so I have to find a way to believe in them. Or at least sympathize to a degree.”

“Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.”

“I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.”

“On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether.”

“I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.”

“I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.”