Giancarlo Esposito Quotes

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

I'm impatient sometimes.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I love the smell of fried chicken.

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

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

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 had to work from a young age.

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 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 do play villains.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

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

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

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.

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

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