Giancarlo Esposito Quotes

I take things very seriously, and I give myself time to come down and to ramp up, and it's an inside spiritual journey for me. I feel like acting is a way of feeling your personality, and it's really special. Special to have this kind of effect on people. You can only have that effect if you're really outside of yourself. You can't look at yourself and do what I do at the same time. I have done it that way in the past, but it doesn't really work. I can only soar within the parameters of time, and I use music analogies.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

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

I love the smell of fried chicken.

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

You can never lead unless you follow.

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

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

I had to work from a young age.

I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married to anymore, but who impresses me because of our relationship. Because we have a very deep and friendly relationship that is completely about who we really are now. Before it was husband, wife, mother, father. But now it's about who we are as human beings. Because we didn't give up on each other. And because we didn't hurt each other and blister each other from a divorce. We became tight. Best friends. And more than that even, because now we're best parents.

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

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.

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

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

There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is to have children, and to be caring for those children, and not only in the care for them, but also in the nurturing and raising of them, they have to pass on their souls and their intelligence. And all those things can't be taught. It's something that, that in the essence of a woman, the essence of a mother, a mother knows!

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.

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

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

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.

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