Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Espositois an Italian-American and African-American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of Gustavo "Gus" Fring on the AMC series Breaking Bad, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama award at the 2012 Critics' Choice Television Awards and was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award at the 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 April 1958
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryUnited States of America
People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.
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 feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.
After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.
I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.
Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.
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!
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.
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.
When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.
There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.
I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?
My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.