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. Giancarlo Esposito More Quotes by Giancarlo Esposito More Quotes From Giancarlo Esposito We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger. Giancarlo Esposito contradictory contradiction I love the smell of fried chicken. Giancarlo Esposito fried-chicken smell chickens Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge. Giancarlo Esposito challenges play character It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well. Giancarlo Esposito wells writing feels The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing. Giancarlo Esposito choices giving thinking For me, I've lived a life as an athlete. Giancarlo Esposito athlete I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence. Giancarlo Esposito fans violence I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine. Giancarlo Esposito spirituality our-relationship divine I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story. Giancarlo Esposito body stories want I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined up with my passion. And that's what I tell my kids. Giancarlo Esposito passion choices kids We want to remember to be playful! We're here in this wonderful and incredible world! Like, the grand architect of the universe created this playground. And we're supposed to have fun, and we're supposed to play. Giancarlo Esposito play fun world I have four daughters, the eldest is 19, the youngest is 12, and I watched all of them journey into motherhood. Motherhood is very deep. It starts when you're very, very young. Now, my 12 year old comes in, wants to put me to bed. And she'll, you know, put her hand on my forehead and say the prayer with me. As for years I've done for her! It's almost like a very beautiful, natural transition. Giancarlo Esposito daughter prayer beautiful What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character. Giancarlo Esposito spiritual helping character I take things very seriously, and I give myself time to come down and to ramp up, and it's an inside spiritual journey for me. I feel like acting is a way of feeling your personality, and it's really special. Special to have this kind of effect on people. You can only have that effect if you're really outside of yourself. You can't look at yourself and do what I do at the same time. I have done it that way in the past, but it doesn't really work. I can only soar within the parameters of time, and I use music analogies. Giancarlo Esposito journey spiritual past There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is to have children, and to be caring for those children, and not only in the care for them, but also in the nurturing and raising of them, they have to pass on their souls and their intelligence. And all those things can't be taught. It's something that, that in the essence of a woman, the essence of a mother, a mother knows! Giancarlo Esposito caring mother children I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married to anymore, but who impresses me because of our relationship. Because we have a very deep and friendly relationship that is completely about who we really are now. Before it was husband, wife, mother, father. But now it's about who we are as human beings. Because we didn't give up on each other. And because we didn't hurt each other and blister each other from a divorce. We became tight. Best friends. And more than that even, because now we're best parents. Giancarlo Esposito husband hurt mother It is the strength of the mother that is going to change the way the world is. It's the compassion, the love, the very open spirited mother and woman that will move us forward in this new century. It's no doubt. Giancarlo Esposito compassion mother moving 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. Giancarlo Esposito community color people I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present. Giancarlo Esposito yoga practice spirit I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label? Giancarlo Esposito labels color skins
