Bob Odenkirk

Now what do you want to do that's going to drive you through the next 20 years of a career?

And I was lost.

because I had already achieved in sketch comedy and with the cult success that I had, I had achieved everything that I was aiming at.

That's what I was aiming for.

But what gives your life purpose now?

Trying to find the next thing to do that will give it purpose.

Trying to find the next thing that will feel...

rewarding and impactful and of value.

I think that some of the people I've known who have great talent and haven't achieved what you might call a massive success that might be on the level of their talent, my experience of those people is that they don't really want it.

There comes a level, a point in their journey where they see this thing and they go, oh, yeah, I don't want that much pressure.

I don't want that many people looking at me.

I want this many people watching.

I want, you know, 15 million people, not 800 million people.

Like, I do think there's like, everybody has a sense of this threshold.

Look, when my kids were about eight and 10 years old, we were on a vacation.

And I remember we were in a supermarket and we were getting lunch and somebody came over to talk to me because they knew me from Mr. Show.

And this was before Breaking Bad.

And I thought,

This is the perfect level of success because I can go out in the world and be myself.

And if there's a person in the room who knows who I am, I can tell you who they are.