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
Giancarlo Esposito quotes about
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.
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.
For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.
I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.
For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.
It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.
I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.
Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?
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.
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.
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!