I had to work from a young age.

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

I do play villains.

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

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

- Giancarlo Esposito

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!

- Giancarlo Esposito

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

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

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.

- Giancarlo Esposito

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