Quotes from Giancarlo Esposito

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?'

What I love about 'Breaking Bad' is the reflection of many people's - it's more real in terms of people have faults, people have character traits that they don't like about themselves. It resembles more of what the human journey really is and it's less fantastic and hero-driven than other characters and shows that we watch.

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

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

Yoga is a big part of my life now. There's not a day that goes by where I don't do an Asana and meditation practice.

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

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 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.

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.

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

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

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.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I had to work from a young age.

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