Giancarlo Esposito famous quotes

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?'
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Thinking #Electronics #Way

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

#Men #Class #People

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

#Yoga #Together #Spirit

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Party #Television #Tickets

My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone's not paying you to do It. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Educational #Passion #Careers

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

#Character #Play #Challenges

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

#Character #Thinking #People

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Character #Done #Occupation

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Men #Humanity #Black

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Mother #Dad #Father

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

#Actors #Television #Week

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Hurt #Believe #Fighting

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

#Our Actions #Pay #Action

I'm impatient sometimes.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Sometimes #Impatient

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

#Spirituality #Our Relationship #Divine

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

#Fans #Violence

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

#Would Be #Fast Food #Chickens

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

#Writing #Wells #Feels

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Successful #Accomplishment #Role Models

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

#Fans #Pieces #Bigs

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Stories #Body #Want

I love the smell of fried chicken.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Smell #Chickens #Fried Chicken

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Thinking #Trying #Heal

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Attitude #Black And White #Maturity

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

#Who I Am #People #Frightened

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

#Athlete

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

#Boys #Poor #Boy Scout

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

#Mother #Father #Race

I can fish from a stick and a string.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Sticks #Strings #Fishes

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

#Long #People #Way

I had to work from a young age.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Age #Young

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

#Personality #Lenient

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

#Teaching #Actors #Want

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

#Looks #Shows

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

#Silence #Facts #Love To Read

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.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Heart #Trying #Persuasive

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Character #Actors #Chameleon