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.

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

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

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 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?'

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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