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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I love the smell of fried chicken.

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 mediation practice.