Giancarlo Esposito
I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.Collection: Food
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.Collection: Dad
I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
I love the smell of fried chicken.
I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.
It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and meditation practice.
I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.
When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.
I can fish from a stick and a string.
I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I'm truly persuasive.
I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.
I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.
I look at 'Breaking Bad' as a show about the American family.
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.
I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.
I had to work from a young age.
When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.
I do play villains.
For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.
Luis Bunuel made great movies.
I'm impatient sometimes.
After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.
For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.
I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'
I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.
The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.
When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!
I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.
Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.
I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.
I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.
I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.
Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
What I love about 'Breaking Bad' is the reflection of many people's - it's more real in terms of people have faults, people have character traits that they don't like about themselves. It resembles more of what the human journey really is and it's less fantastic and hero-driven than other characters and shows that we watch.
My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day - even if someone's not paying you to do it. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.Collection: Educational
I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.Collection: Daughter
The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing.Collection: Thinking
If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.Collection: Character
I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined up with my passion. And that's what I tell my kids.Collection: Passion
Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create that character and really nuanced with who that human being might be. But I don't want to lose the likeness of me or the depth of my own personality. So meditation and my spirituality has helped me to realize that, yes, I want to get out of the way but I also want the ability to hold on to what the audience likes of what they see of me.Collection: Character
Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?Collection: Block