Frankie Muniz

Most successful actors on TV are actually miserable

I know so many actors, child actors, or even adult actors who, for some reason they get on these TV shows, they have all this success, but they're miserable. And they want off the show. I wanna do movie. It's like, you don't understand how lucky you are.

Breaking Bad would not exist if Brian Cranston hadn't been cast in Malcolm in the Middle

They didn't have [Brian Cranston] cast until the day we started filming. If he didn't get cast, the show would've been completely different. Maybe it wouldn't have been nearly as successful. And then you wouldn't have had—think the domino effect—there would've been no Breaking Bad. There would've been no Better Call Saul.

I was the last person to talk to Dale Earnhardt before his fatal crash at the 2001 Daytona 500

Dale Earnhardt came up to me and he goes, 'I just have to say, you've brought me and my daughter so much closer, your show.' ... Other than his crew chief essentially, I was the last person to talk to him.

IndyCar has a better pool of drivers than Formula 1 because of car parity

I would say the best series of drivers, in my opinion, and this might get me in trouble, is IndyCar. Because there's 24 guys who race every week and all 24 of them could win... Where in Formula 1, it really is contingent upon what car you're in.