Giancarlo Esposito Quotes

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

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 love the smell of fried chicken.

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 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.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

You can never lead unless you follow.

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

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.

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?

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.

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

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.

Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

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.

I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

I look at Breaking Bad as a show about the American family.

My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?

For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

We're living in a time where we want to be entertained but I think part of what people are looking for, that they don't even know they're looking for is to be uplifted in many ways.

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

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.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

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.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

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.

When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.

What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.

I'm impatient sometimes.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

I had to work from a young age.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.