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

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 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.

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.

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 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.