GIANCARLO ESPOSITO

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

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.

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.

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

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.

People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.

I do play villains.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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