Quotes from Giancarlo Esposito

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

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

People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

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

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

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

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

I love the smell of fried 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.

I'm impatient sometimes.

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